Oct 9, 2023·edited Oct 9, 2023Liked by Ruth Franklin
Thanks for sharing this behind-the-scenes look into your process! I'm intrigued by the title of your upcoming book. At first, I think how unfair it is to say that Anne Frank had many lives when she barely got to live her one—but Anne Frank the symbol has undoubtedly gone places the person never could.
Thanks for sharing this process. I am right now at the beginnings of trying to pitch a trends piece and so hearing this timeline and detail was useful!
Ruth, I so loved reading this (even as a person who knows how the sausage is made; maybe I loved it even more because of this)! Also: I love the title of your new book and hope you don’t change it.
I appreciate the discussion of your process. Yours is the kind of consideration I yearned for from a New Yorker writer when my feminist biography of Upton Sinclair was published (I didn't get it). I also want Mary Wollstonecraft introduced to a new generation in her marvelous complexity. The biography Vindication by Frances Sherwood--a late in life writer--was a revelation. Have you read it?
Thanks for sharing this behind-the-scenes look into your process! I'm intrigued by the title of your upcoming book. At first, I think how unfair it is to say that Anne Frank had many lives when she barely got to live her one—but Anne Frank the symbol has undoubtedly gone places the person never could.
What a thoughtful and generous look at your writing process. Many thanks!
Thanks for sharing this process. I am right now at the beginnings of trying to pitch a trends piece and so hearing this timeline and detail was useful!
Ruth, I so loved reading this (even as a person who knows how the sausage is made; maybe I loved it even more because of this)! Also: I love the title of your new book and hope you don’t change it.
So interesting to learn about this process. Looking forward to reading your essay/review.
I appreciate the discussion of your process. Yours is the kind of consideration I yearned for from a New Yorker writer when my feminist biography of Upton Sinclair was published (I didn't get it). I also want Mary Wollstonecraft introduced to a new generation in her marvelous complexity. The biography Vindication by Frances Sherwood--a late in life writer--was a revelation. Have you read it?