Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

2018 • 385 pages

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15

DNF. More academic than I thought it would be, and the chapters I managed to read discussed the women's personal and professional relationships with men more than their actual work. Despite lumbering through a full chapter devoted to Susan Sontag, I still have no idea why Kevin Costner's character in Bull Durham calls her novels “self-indulgent, overrated crap” (yes it's because he's a guy, but what feature of about her writing offends his male sensibilities so much?).

March 14, 2023