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If "the realm of the personal and sexual has always been literary for men [...] and confessional for women, " as Lori Saint-Martin puts it, Marisa Crawford's Diary explodes the literary/confessional binary, pushing the limits of what it means to write a poem, a diary entry, a marketing copy block. A woman works, walks, and writes, traversing Midtown Manhattan on a lunch break from a corporate day job: like her predecessors Frank O'Hara and Cla...

A time capsule of the book blogosphere: The publication of The Weird Sister Collection in book form represents the institutionalization of online writing and discourse at a time when incubator projects for writers—such as literary magazines—are dwindling. The book celebrates the blog’s ten-year anniversary, and acts as an archival testament to the early careers of celebrated feminist writers such as Morgan Parker, Soleil Ho, Christopher Soto, ...

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Centering on coming-of-age themes, Crawford is brutally honest yet careful in her representations and confessional moments. She invokes a preteen voice, capturing in detail female subjects. The winner of the 2008 Gatewood Prize, Crawford offers reminders that it is impossible to shake personal geographies.