Reviews

A Virago Keepsake to Celebrate Twenty Years of Publishing by Grace Nichols, Kate Millett, Janette Turner Hospital, Elaine Showalter, A.S. Byatt, Tatyana Tolstoya, Elizabeth Wilson, Michèle Roberts, Marina Warner, Margaret Atwood, Maya Angelou, Kathleen Dayus, Gillian Slovo, Deborah Tannen, Nina Bawden, Lynne Segal, Lyndall P. Hopkinson, Alice Duer Miller, Amanda Cross

caterinaanna's review

3.0

A series of essays about Virago, female writers and writing published to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the press. I'm writing this review a month after reading and I have to say that there's little that has stuck after that time. There were one or two interesting little nuggets, such as the writer who got so engrossed in conversation with her taxi driver that she forgot where she was heading and went home instead of going to give an important lecture, but most of it was a paean to women writing and getting published that now seems out of date. I think Grace Nichols had the best approach: she submitted some of her work with a mere few lines of explanation, letting the poems speak for themselves. And I love The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping.