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Bridget Read
Bridget Read is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, New York, Guernica Daily, and the anthology Words and Women.


Lean in, Swipe Right: On Tinder and the Politics of Singledom

Bridget Read Considers the Future of Sex, and Emily Witt's Future Sex
October 13, 2016  By Bridget Read
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Jenny Diski, Down the Final Rabbit Hole

On a Body of Work That Ends Without Ending
May 16, 2016  By Bridget Read
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Jenny Diski Was Afraid, But It Didn’t Stop Her

She was balls-to-the-walls writing and dying
April 29, 2016  By Bridget Read
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Charlotte Brontë May Have Started the Fire, But Jean Rhys Burned Down the House

Wide Sargasso Sea and The Limits of Bronte Feminism
April 21, 2016  By Bridget Read
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On Maggie Nelson’s The Red Parts, Ten Years Later

How the book paved the way for the The Argonauts
April 5, 2016  By Bridget Read
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Janet Malcolm: Biased, Mean, and Brilliant

Why Our Best Biographer Hates the New Ted Hughes Biography
January 26, 2016  By Bridget Read
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How to Read a Movie Like a Book

In Which Richard Brody Completely Misses the Point of Brooklyn, the Movie
December 3, 2015  By Bridget Read
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In Praise of the Horrid Gothic Novel

Or: How the Structures of Gothic Feminism Apply to Halloween in NYC
October 30, 2015  By Bridget Read
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American Women: Masters of the Short Story

On the Literary Genealogy of Lucia Berlin
August 19, 2015  By Bridget Read
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David Foster Wallace, Reluctant Movie Star

On the Perils and Pleasures of Hagiography
July 30, 2015  By Bridget Read
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