Archive - Mad Woman

Is Taylor Swift a poet?

On sad girlies, Sylvia Plath, madness, and the body on pop

Apr 25 •

Writing Group Thread: On Research

How do you use research in your work? How do you organize it all?

Apr 22 •

Why the Golden Divorce makes everyone so mad

Plus essays on aging, a show about girls and violence, and a book with a butt

Apr 19 •

Read me at The New York Times Magazine

I spent five months talking to married people about *intimacy*

Apr 17 •

Writing Group Thread: On Aging

Plus a discount code for Writing Group members on this month's seminar, 'Against Heroism'

Apr 15 •

Olivia Plath breaks out, sad trad hubbies, women wrestling with angels

A roundup and a thread

Apr 12 •

"Too many of us feel an intense shame about our desires"

Jo Piazza on women, wanting, and her new novel, The Sicilian Inheritance

Apr 10 •

Writing Group Thread: AMA

Open to all paid subscribers

Apr 8 •

“What will your kids think?”

Writing about your children is not ‘sharenting’

Apr 4 •

Writing Group Thread: How do you recover creatively?

This is a weekly discussion for writing group subscribers. Read about the difference between the writing group and a regular paid subscription here. You…

Apr 1 •

March 2024

How does she do it?

Mar 30 •

Writing Group Thread: Revision Passes

Plus a discount code for writing group members on my upcoming seminar on Memoir & Consent

Mar 25 •

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