Corinne Manning
Corinne Manning is the author of We Had No Rules and is at work on a novel about abuse and Italian American assimilation. www.corinnemanning.com
A Real Slut in the Making: Melissa Febos’s Girlhood Through the Lens of Silvia Federici's Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
By Corinne ManningAs female friendship was one of the targets of the witch-hunt (daughters turned in their own mothers), Girlhood rests as a document of how that division has been sufficiently accepted and normalized. However, Girlhood in its form reasserts what has been taken from women and all people: what Federici refers to as the multicultural role of women as “weavers of memory.”
Never Ours to Give: Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
By Corinne ManningThis is a slutty book, not just in content but in form. The long, sprawling essay bends prose and language to seek both intimacy and the alive body. “I don’t want to give any more of my touch to language. I just want language to generate more touch.”
The Sound of America: Jeanne Thornton’s Summer Fun
By Corinne ManningSummer Fun by Jeanne Thornton is an epistolary novel that is as much mystery as cultural analysis and rewards the reader by never giving us what we expect or what we think we want.
