![]() ![]() “That’s been my obsession, my theme.”Ĭomposed in fragments and inspired by the journals she has kept since age 12, the book explores the contrasts between the public and private lives of women writers, including Roiphe herself. “I’ve always written about the inadequacy of political language to get at the complexities and intricacies of experience,” she says. Roiphe says The Power Notebooks is consistent with her career project of questioning oversimplified political speech. “My dedication to ambiguity here will surprise people.” “People expect from me more of a ferocious polemical energy,” Roiphe says. But her latest book, The Power Notebooks (Free Press) - her most personal yet - likely will rattle both fans and detractors. Carter Journalism Institute, also has authored scholarly works on unconventional literary marriages and writers near death. Roiphe, director of the cultural reporting and criticism program at New York University’s Arthur L. ![]()
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