Fall Movie Preview: Insidious misogyny in ‘Gone Girl’
I haven’t seen the movie “Gone Girl,” and neither have you as it’s hitting theaters on October 3, though I did read the book this summer. I was horrified by the misogyny woven through the narrative....
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***SPOILERS*** “Gone Girl” makes violence against women into a punchline, and does this so well that even I laughed at the jokes. Just as the book “Gone Girl” is well written and well plotted, the...
View ArticleCould ‘Wild’ be the antidote to ‘Gone Girl’?
I’m a slow reader, and I read several books simultaneously, so finishing Cheryl Strayed’s Wild in a couple days is a remarkable feat in my world. This memoir starts with the story of a how Strayed’s...
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