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James Lasdun

Dirty Laundry: A One-Sided Literary Feud by Stephen Trombley, author of All That Summer She Was Mad

Afarin Majidi’s memoir Writing and Madness in a Time of Terror is a history of hurt. It is also a remarkable testament to overcoming.

In 1979, upper middle-class Iranian women like Afarin Majidi wore French fashions and perfume, smoked in public and generally enjoyed the same social freedoms as western women. Iran was then a kingdom, ruled by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi – the Shah of Iran.

Thanksgiving 2017: Surviving the Publishing Industry, Which Rivals Hollywood as a Rape Den

Thanksgiving 2017: Surviving the Publishing Industry, Which Rivals Hollywood as a Rape Den

Misogynist female book reviewers prefer self-loathing discussions on James Lasdun’s very important fiction about peeping on black women over my story of being raped. They want to shower him with accolades as a “writer’s writer” for using salmon as symbolism for a dead Asian woman’s vagina. Oh, and don’t forget his description of lady bits as smelling “pungent” (Maybe yours, ladies, but not mine.).

I’m Not Pretty When I Cry: Rants from a Failed Victim

I’m Not Pretty When I Cry: Rants from a Failed Victim

I am ugly when I am furious, and I never shed a tear, not even after my boyfriend dislocated my shoulder. In fact, I put my shoulder back in place myself and later took a hammer to the diamond ring he’d handmade for me because the pain was intolerable.

On Being Stalked: What it’s Really Like to Be Terrorized

On Being Stalked: What it’s Really Like to Be Terrorized

Stalking is often linked to rape and domestic violence. Hear my story of being stalked by my rapist. Also, hear how James Lasdun unfairly accused me of stalking him.