Volume 47, Number 6 · April 13, 2000
The Odd Women
By Lorrie Moore
Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World
by Claudia Roth Pierpont
Knopf, 298 pp., $26.95
Weekly, the coffee shop near my house has what the owner calls 'Trivia Tuesday': anyone who can answer the trivia question posted on the cake case wins a free cup of coffee. One Tuesday not so long ago I ventured in at around four in the afternoon. The question, written in black marker on a white card, read 'What American playwright/actress was arrested and jailed for her work?' No one that day had answered the question correctly. No one had not said 'Lillian Hellman.' I summoned the cashier, pointed at the sign, and said, a little triumphantly, 'Mae West.'
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