Suzi Feay

All their wits about them

Dorothy Parker, Susan Sontag and Nora Ephron are among the clever, forthright writers celebrated in Michelle Dean’s group study

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

    Michelle Dean

    Fleet, pp. 384

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