As The #MeToo Backlash Continues, Let Us Remember the Short Stories of Emma Cline’s Daddy

In his 2017 book, Kids These Days, Malcolm Harris predicts, among other things, the eventual raging return of on-blast misogyny (what he refers to as the “misogynist backlash”). Mainly as a result of looking for a scapegoat to blame for the way things are when, in fact, things are that way as a direct result of the patriarchal, male-spewed “values” we all still adhere to … Continue reading As The #MeToo Backlash Continues, Let Us Remember the Short Stories of Emma Cline’s Daddy

Girls to the Front: Emma Cline’s Debut Spotlights the Invisibility of Females in a Historical Context

For as hokey as a reimagined, stylized perspective on the Manson family might sound, 27-year-old Emma Cline has managed to prove that maybe there was something to the two million dollar price tag for her debut, The Girls. In spite of Cline’s relatively anonymous history, with a handful of stories published in The Believer, The Paris Review and Salon, The Girls is an artful depiction … Continue reading Girls to the Front: Emma Cline’s Debut Spotlights the Invisibility of Females in a Historical Context