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Michele Filgate is an independent bookseller and a freelance writer. Her writing has appeared in O,The Oprah Magazine, The Star Tribune, Bookslut, The Quarterly Conversation, The Brooklyn Rail, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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Feminine Mystique

‘HEROINES’

<p>In <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Heroines-Semiotext-Active-Agents-Zambreno/dp/1584351144/" target="_blank">Heroines</a></i>, Kate Zambreno<i> </i>blends memoir with literary criticism to wrestle with her role as a wife and a follower of modernist female writers like Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Zelda Fitzgerald, Jean Rhys, and Jane Bowles. She talks to Michele Filgate about diaries, sexism, and “unsympathetic characters.”</p>

Michele Filgate | Published Nov 23, 2012

8 Great Books About Books

Bibliophile

Michele Filgate picks the best works that celebrate history’s greatest pastime—reading.

Michele Filgate | Published Jul 19, 2012

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