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Rosalind Parry

Rosalind Parry

Rosalind Parry is a lecturer at Princeton University and an adjunct professor at Lander College for Women. Her writing has been published in Raritan, Literary Imagination, and T: The New York Times Style Magazine. An exhibit she curated, A Single Drop of Ink for a Mirror, is currently on view at the Princeton University Museum of Art. icon

What Can “Women’s Fiction” Do for Women?

By Rosalind Parry

“I am the proud and happy writer of popular fiction,” says novelist Jennifer Weiner, “and I would never argue that it matters as much as the award-winning ...

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