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Anna Clark

Writer

http://www.isak.typepad.com

Who I am:

I am a 29-year-old writer living in Detroit, Michigan.

What I'm reading:

"Home" by Marilynne Robinson and "Lie Down in Darkness" by William Styron. Both are incredible novels. Also: current issues of The Sun, One Story, and The Boston Review.

What I'm listening to:

Podcasts of short stories, via the wonderful "Selected Shorts" podcast.

What I'm watching:

I've got a weekly date to go to my friend's house (she has a TV) to watch "Mad Men." And I've been digging episodes of the 1970s-80s journalism drama "Lou Grant" on Hulu.

What blogs I like:

Let me think about it.

The Ambition Condition

Women, Writing, and the Problem of Success

Article by Anna Clark, Illustrated by Meg Hunt, appeared in issue Loud; published in 2008; filed under Social commentary; tagged alternative literary culture, ambitous women, devaluing women's voices, female writers, literary sexism.

Perhaps you know about Emily Gould’s cover story, “Exposed,” in the New York Times Magazine last May. Even if you didn’t take in all 8,002 words on the former Gawker editor’s gains and losses from blogging about her personal life, it would be hard to miss the criticism of the piece elsewhere. From the Huffington Post to the Philadelphia Weekly to an untold number of blogs and listservs, the backlash challenged the magazine for peddling narcissistic Dear-Diary diatribes as a worthy journalistic cover story. 

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Jail Bait

Rethinking Images of Incarcerated Women

Article by Anna Clark, Illustrated by Omar Lee, appeared in issue Home & Away; published in 2005; filed under Film; tagged criminal justice, fantasy, media, prison reform, race, stereotypes.

It is not my pleasure to remind anyone of the 2001 teen flick Sugar & Spice. Teetering between the black humor of Heathers and the girly glitz of Clueless, it achieves the success of neither, and I bring it up now only because of a single scene.

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