Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Category: Women’s Issues

  • By Any Other Name

    Jodi Picoult is a great writer. Her sentences are impeccable. Her stories intrigue. We seem to have the same interests/obsessions. And sometimes she goes a bit overboard with her research. When I learned her latest novel was about how Shakespeare is really a woman, well, I was upset. Not that old argument again…I’d been hearing…

  • The Clinton Affair

    I watched this six-part series because I have always been fascinated by Monica Lewinsky.  Horrified by what she went through, what our “justice” system put her through, what our President put her through, what the media did to her. It seemed like a nightmare life. Maybe I like nightmares or flame engulfed car crashes. I…

  • The Truth About Single Moms

    Saturday I attended a writer’s conference. I had a long-standing commitment to participate on a panel with writers Cindy LaFerle and Lynne Cobb on women’s issues. The always fabulous Cindy LaFerle moderated the panel, so all I had to do was show up and say something smart. Not easy, but I’m a woman, I’ve been…