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| Twentieth Century Foxes Twelve centenarians reflect on women' progress an offer advice. |
| Time Capsule Capturing the century through the objects that changed women's lives |
| Women on The Verge of 2000 |
Ms.CELLANEOUS
-Just the Facts
-Word: (My) Lord
-Weightlifter
-Have You Seen This Potato? |
| What About Tomorrow?>by Marcia Ann Gillespie |
YOUR WORK:
-Go Figure: Wag Gap Wrangling
-Why the Consulting Business Is Becoming Woman Friendly
-Women Architects: If You Build It
-Worknotes |
| Who Knew? A compendium of women's deeds, feats, and innovations |
ARTS:
-Great Leaps Forward -Artswatch |
| Being There A look back at the events that shaped and changed America during the twentieth century |
BOOKS:
-Novel Companions: Writers on Books They Treasure |
- Editor's Page
- Letters
- Making Waves
- No Comment |
NEWS
- Activists: The Bottom Line for '99
-Liberte, Egalite, Parite
-NOW Does Hollywood
-Opinion: Abortion and Crime
-Women on the Verge of 2000
-Mexico City's Women Traffic Cops
-Opinion: Guns and Lobsters
-Indian Women Sue Canadian Feds
- Under Fire: The Year of the Gun |
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| INTERVIEWS BY AMY ARONSON |
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<author of The End of Alice (Simon & Schuster, 1997) and Music for Torching (William Morrow, 1999)>
First, I'll carry Grace Paley's Collected Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994), truly for her gracefulness. And for the things that she can tell us about ourselves. Grace manages to catch the things that we often ignore. The thing that's important for us to carry into the next century is the ability to pay attention. And she does that wonderfully. I will also carry Richard Yates. I guess I would have to choose his Revolutionary Road (Vintage, 1989), for its unflinching ability to illustrate the depth of human nature--or the desperateness of human nature. In this book, Yates is heartbreakingly accurate at describing marriage and family in the twentieth century. It's the perfect rendering of how a person can feel lonely with another person. He catches us at our most exposed and there's no effort to make us look better than we are. As shocking as his work was when it first came out, I think it's even more so now. Today, people expect everything to look good, and I think it's important to smash that.
Last, I'll carry the work of Angela Carter, an intellectual firecracker of an English writer who died in 1992. Her work is in a volume called Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings (Penguin, 1998). As strange and surrealistic as her writing can be, it is also prophetic. It's magical and mystical and disquieting in its depiction of the world run amok--which we're constantly on the verge of. Her work was feminist, too, in that she was always playing with identity. She's someone who we're leaving behind, and I don't want that to happen. |
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