Sunday, January 08, 2006

Some of you may be interested in this - it looks good:

'Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by
Women Journalists,' edited by Eleanor Mills with Kira
Cochrane
Review by JILL ABRAMSON

"Journalistas" is an anthology that bills itself as the best
writing by women journalists over the past 100 years. I first
picked up the volume with annoyance - I hated the title and
still do. And I'm not a fan of anthologies. Reading them is
often like feasting on a meal of hors d'oeuvres. Such
collections tend to dilute the narrative drive that makes
much journalism compelling in the first place. And the idea
of isolating "the best writing" from women journalists seemed
dutiful. I have never been fully persuaded that women do
really speak and write in an entirely different voice from
men, so the idea of segregating them in a book did not thrill
me.

But most of the pieces collected by Eleanor Mills (an editor
at The Sunday Times of London) and Kira Cochrane (a novelist
and former journalist) are so marvelous that I quickly cast
aside my doubts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/books/review/08abramson.html?8bu&emc=bu

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