Books

The Only Girl: My Life and Times on the Masthead of Rolling Stone by Robin Green (Little, Brown, $36.50)

“The editor from Esquire called and asked ‘Who’s the new bitch?’ And my name was added as a contributing editor on the masthead, where, among those guys, I was the only girl.” -Robin Green (from The Only Girl, pages 60-61) I have an octogenarian friend; a retired University professor who in the 60’s and 70’s […]

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Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge by Becky Aikman (Penguin Press, $37)

“She would create a movie about outlaw women on the run, busting out of tedious, thwarted humdrum lives – lives like hers – for freedom that let them finally become their true selves.  She imagined it all:  a movie unlike any other she had ever seen, where women drove the story, maybe even got to […]