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What It Feels Like For A Girl – To Read Roth, Kerouac, And Other “Midcentury Misogynists”

WORDS Posted: December 10, 2013 12:27 am

Sara Marcus: “I remember putting On the Road down the first time a woman was mentioned. I was just like: ‘Fuck. You.'” Emily Witt: ““I read the [coming-of-age novels] by men instead, until I was like, ‘I cannot read another passage about masturbation. I can’t.’ It was like a pile of Kleenex.”

WORDS Published: 12.09.13, Slate

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