I’m thrilled to announce that my next book (after Pop Star Goddesses) will be When Women Invented Television, a narrative history of the pivotal early days of TV when women reigned for a brief, shining few years. Here’s the official deal announcement from...
On the one hand, we’ve got our own hard-hitting, prestige television, thank you. On the other hand, we’d much rather be worrying about shoes than reproductive rights, but here we are in...
First, Hillary Clinton was talking about carrying hot sauce in her bag at the same time that “I got hot sauce in my bag” became a catch phrase, thanks to Beyoncé’s Super Bowl song, “Formation.” Then Beyoncé put out an entire album,...
The following is an excerpt from the introduction of my book, Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted, which tells the story of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its relationship to the Women’s Movement. Treva Silverman had always wanted to be the beautiful, funny, smart...
I have to admit that, as a journalism school grad who started her career working for newspapers, I’m floored by the statistics on how male-dominated the field remains. Amy Joyce at The Washington Post crunches the numbers in a recent post, prompted by Jill...
