BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY on NPR
This is exactly how I felt when I heard Rebecca Traister, author of the just released Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women, speak at the S&S Preview for librarians:
I thought I was awake and alert throughout the 2008 presidential election. I faithfully read two major American newspapers each day; I was glued to news and talking-head analysis on TV and the Internet; and I live in Washington, D.C., after all, where politics is the hometown industry.
But reading Rebecca Traister’s superb new book about the election, called Big Girls Don’t Cry, made me feel retrospectively dopey, like the “stupid sidekick” in detective fiction who dutifully takes in the details of a crime scene, but always fails to see the Big Picture.
The quote is from Maureen Corrigan on NPR’s Fresh Air last night.
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