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No More Moments of SilenceOctober 11, 2012
Good evening. I’m honored to speak with you about violence. And the thing I want to tell you most is (more…) The Politics of GOLDJuly 12, 2012
A few months ago I had the pleasure of reading an advance copy of Chris Cleave's new novel Gold. Cleave is the author of two other books that I greatly admire, Little Bee and Incendiary, brilliant, compassionate, and politically significant novels that have become best sellers. It seems in many ways Cleave has achieved the impossible, making (more…)
Thanks LGBT community, We Couldn't do it Without YouMarch 12, 2012 
Not Oprah's Book ClubMay 3, 2011
Last week I had the pleasure of talking with Feministing's brilliant blogger Chloe Angyal at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn. To read all of Chloe's piece on the evening you can click on the photo.
"On Wednesday night, I was lucky enough to meet Hoffman and to interview her before a small crowd at Brookyln’s Greenlight Bookstore. We talked about a number of themes in the book, including the way that women sometimes collude in rape culture by engaging in victim-blaming..." Cara Hoffman Hates MenApril 14, 2011
Thanks to Google Analytics I can see the terms people are using to search online for me and my work.
The vast majority are, as you would expect, my name and the title So Much Pretty. But there are other terms; “Cara Hoffman naked” and “Cara Hoffman nude” and also “Cara Hoffman hates men.” (more…) Now is the TimeMarch 16, 2011 
Recent reporting in The New York Times about the brutally violent sexual assault of an eleven-year old child brings many issues to light. And while some have cried bias, charging that the Times has “blamed the victim” in their coverage, there is a much bigger issue at work. (more…) The Fates Will Find Their Way; an Interview with Hannah PittardMarch 12, 2011 
Missing Nora Lindell will never be found. And her story becomes instead fodder for obsessive speculation by (more…) The Informationist; an Interview with Taylor StevensMarch 8, 2011 
The novel’s protagonist Vanessa Michael Munroe, whose height and androgynous beauty makes it possible for her to pass as a man when necessary is the kind of hero we’ve not seen before. Possibly ever. While Munroe has (more…) Know Your Heroes: Simone DebeauvoirMarch 5, 2011
"Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority."
- Simone DeBeauvoir From our friends at the existential primer: Simone de Beauvoir was one of the most important cultural historians of the twentieth century. She was also (more…) Kicking off Women's History Month with EmmaFebruary 28, 2011
Emma Goldman (1869–1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women's equality and independence, and union (more…)
Going to Where the Silences Are; an Interview with Jennifer BlockFebruary 25, 2011 
Our Stories, Ourselves; an Interview with Alexis SantiFebruary 24, 2011
The recently released Vida report, tallying the disparity between men and women being published today is a sobering reminder of how much work we have ahead of us.
Today I had a chat with Alexis Santi, founder of Our Stories Literary Journal on the subject. Santi earned his MFA from George Mason (more…) Freedom and the English LanguageFebruary 21, 2011 
Franklin’s bill comes on the heels of an attempt to redefine the word rape itself in (more…) The Second Assault on Lara LoganFebruary 16, 2011
The brutal sexual assault of CBS news chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan, while she was covering a celebration following the revolution in Egypt, has not provided us with some shocking revelation. Sexual violence and violence against women, particularly in the workplace or at home are common occurrences, not just in the Arab world but worldwide. (more…)
DAY OF HONEY an Interview with Annia CiezadloFebruary 7, 2011 
Why We Read, an Interview with Philipp MeyerFebruary 1, 2011 
Bad advice from Kurt VonnegutJanuary 23, 2011 
Julian Assange: Too busy with “serious” work to answer questions about possible sexual assaultDecember 23, 2010
The following piece on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is a guest blog by Anna Louie Sussman. Sussman is a print journalist whose work has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Nation, and other magazines. She writes about social justice and women's issues, and ice cream.
The fierce megalomania that Julian Assange unleashed in Monday’s twenty-five-minute-long interview with the BBC’s John Humphrys presumably surprised no one. He’s been (more…) Jon Frankel on Writing Novels in an Hour and a Half a DayDecember 13, 2010 When I lived in Ithaca, NY, I became friends with a writer named Jon Frankel. A deeply, darkly funny guy who equally loved Phillip K. Dick and John Donne. Neither of us had attended college and we were dedicated to learning and reading outside of the institution. Like me he was trying to be (more…) A Funeral in Clay, NYNovember 29, 2010
A funeral will be held Wednesday for Jenni Lyn Watson, a resident of Clay, NY who disappeared November 19 and whose body was found a week later, dumped behind a storage shed four miles from her house. Her ex-boyfriend is being charged with murder. (more…)
Oh, I Would Not Give You False Hope...October 12, 2010
I get asked a lot of parenting questions these days and questions about being a single mother. I think this is partly because many of my friends and peers are having their first kids or raising toddlers, while my son is nearly grown—a brainy, wiseass musician entering college who is sweet enough to send me things like youtube videos of Mr. T singing “I pity the fool who don’t love his mother.” (more…)
The Beginning of MenOctober 6, 2010
The recent trend of declaring the “end of masculinity” is gaining much purchase recently, such as in the piece that ran September 20 in Newsweek Magazine asking us if it was time for a “new macho” and Hanna Rosin’s well researched article “The End of Men” which ran in the July/ (more…)
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