Michelle Dean, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

Literary Society of the Desert

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Toscana Country Club

76009 Via Club Villa, Indian Wells

Doors open at 11:30 am, lunch at noon

Michelle Dean

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

Michelle Dean is an American journalist and critic. Author of Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion is about ten brilliant women who came from different backgrounds and had vastly divergent political and artistic opinions. But they all made a significant contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of America and ultimately changed the course of the twentieth century, in spite of the men who often undervalued or dismissed their work. These ten women—Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm—are united by what Dean calls “sharpness,” the ability to cut to the quick with precision of thought and wit.

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