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What It Cost Eight Women Writers To Make It In New York | The Awl Top row: Dorothy Parker, Zora Neale Hurston, Shirley Jackson, Gael Greene. Bottom row: Patti Smith, Susan Sontag, Tama Janowitz, Kate Christensen.
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Obligatory woman writer trying to make it in New York reblog. (It’s queued, so maybe when it finally posts those of you...
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