“When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My first novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, is the product of that urgency.” WritingFirstsNovelMovementProductsLateFeministMemoirQueensSixtyExesUrgentUrgencyPromProm Queen Author:Alix Kates Shulman
“Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.” FeelsCan DoNovelEmotionalPeriodsOrdinary Author:Alix Kates Shulman
“I am not a psychological novelist, and I try very hard not to allow the reader to see the plight or circumstances of the characters as individual psychological plights. That's my preference; still, a lot of people do read my novels as psychological studies, and they're right to read them that way too, if that's what they mean to them.” PeopleIfsWayTryingMeanStillsHardCharacterIndividualNovelStudyReaderCircumstancesPsychologicalNovelistsPreferencePlight Author:Alix Kates Shulman
