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Kathy Najimy recommended Backlash: The Undelclared War Against American Women in Books (curated)

Backlash: The Undelclared War Against American Women

Susan Faludi | 1993 | Gender Studies, History & Politics, LGBTQ+

1.0

(1 Ratings)

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"I remember reading the hardback first edition of “Backlash” (a feminist classic) in the backseat of a friend’s Buick on the way home from a particularly wild Catskills trip, simultaneously swallowing Doritos and my rage and sadness at the reality of antifeminist backlash. Faludi has published an updated version — especially relevant in our new Trump America — just as interesting, motivating and rage-inducing as the first. This book hurts, but it moves us forward. “Backlash” continues to be an informative wake up call for women of my and my daughter Samia’s generation."

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Bret Easton Ellis recommended Rosemary's Baby (1968) in Movies (curated)

Rosemary's Baby (1968)

1968 | Classics, Horror, Mystery

8.3

(34 Ratings)

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"A perfect horror film and, except for one bloody mess glimpsed early on and a few sexy scratches from Satan himself, no blood spilled. The movie builds dread with its narrative, but amplified by Polanski’s masterful technique, it becomes effortlessly menacing. The movie is still riveting and suspenseful after multiple viewings, maybe because it’s anchored in reality and so beautifully simple—the horror is played out within the realities of a modern marriage in late-’60s Manhattan and the “God is dead” movement. Second only to Chinatown in Polanski’s oeuvre."

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George Saunders recommended The Bluest Eye in Books (curated)

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison | 1970 | Fiction & Poetry

7.6

(5 Ratings)

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"The first time I read this book it transported me back to my early Catholic days on the South Side of Chicago, when the nuns put forth a model of Christ as a kind of superhero, whose superpower was love, defined as his ability to look with affection at anyone and everyone, no exceptions. Morrison models that capability here in this great novel, and reminds us that the first move in any assessment of a person or notion should be sympathy, based on the reality of our grand mutual suffering."

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