I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I don't have an MFA, or a PhD, I tend to approach it just through my own practice.

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.

I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission.

I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.

Patriarchy is having the power to name.

People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature.

The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.