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| Tuesday, May 4, 2010 9:32AM | | | | Two Worlds | Tags: New York, cosmopolitan, heritage, cultural diversity, arrival, taxi drivers, Adam Gopnik, Anne Landsman, Eduardo Lago, Salman Rushdie, José Manuel Prieto
| | | | The TWO WORLDS panel moderated by Adam Gopnik, was a mostly a paean to New York, and so took place in a perfect venue. It was a beautiful, if very warm, Sunday afternoon. Battery Park was spring green and filled with sightseers, there were sailboats on the water and the Statue of Liberty through an archway presided over it all. In the cool, elegant Museum of Jewish History, Anne Landsman from South Africa, Eduardo Lago from Spain, José Manuel Prieto from Cuba and Salman Rushdie from India joined together in agreeing that while they were mostly from these places, they had lived in others, and come to be New Yorkers by choice, by accident, or by need. And they had stayed on, why? They... | | | | | | | Tuesday, April 27, 2010 10:38AM | | | | Women Sex and Fiction: A Recap | Tags: Claire Messud, Lorraine Adams, Norman Rush, Esther Allen, Alex Epstein, Gender, Translation, Diversity
| | | It’s been known since the novel was invented that the imagined readership of fiction has been women, not men. Today, 80% of fiction’s readership is women, yet men seem to be winning all the awards. Yesterday’s event, “The Diversity Test: Gender and Literature in Translation,” sought to address this issue. Lorraine Adams, one of the event’s panelists, gave a telling anecdote: after informing one of her Princeton professors that she was going to write her paper on the poetry of Sir Philip Sidney, he exclaimed: “Good! Fiction is for women and babies.”
The panel, led by novelist Claire Messud, was largely a response to Messud’s month-long fiction editorship at Guernica, where she prefaced her series with an essay about gender inequality in fiction.... | | | | | | | Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:44PM | | | | Le Clezio | Tags: Le Clezio
Adam Gopnik
| | | | What a coup to see the new Nobelist Le Clezio on Friday night, April 24, added to the schedule. With Adam Gopnik at the 92nd Street Y. I have to be in Sag Harbor. Will look for the podcast down the line. | | | | | | | Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:34PM | | | | No Women Clergy | Tags: Adam, pope, Baptist, Bob Jones, apple
| | | | Parody of “Farmer’s Union Leader Knocks Woman’s Suffrage,” published in the Fort Worth Semi-weekly Record, Feb. 16, 1919
Why Women Are Unfit to be Pastors
The idea of a pink pulpit no doubt appeals to woman’s love for the ridiculous but for the church to unsex the human race so that a woman may rule over a man is human abomination and religious tofu. God gave Eve to Adam with the pledge that she would be his helpmate and with that order of companionship God has blessed woman and man has honored her. Now, after 6007 years, three months, four days and seventeen hours of progress, she proposes to provoke God and decoy man by amending an agreement to which she was not a party.
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