Joanna Russ (1937-2011)

[supergee]

* Those great F&SF reviews

* "When It Changed"

* Discovering K/S

* all those reasons women can't really write

* "Nobody's Home"

* trying to reason with Poul Anderson & Philip K. Dick

and more, more, more

Comments

[onyxlynx]

Thank you; I just heard (via email list) and have been without words.

[laughingrat]

THAT is what I knew her name from. How to silence women's writing. Yes. I even recommended her to a little girl whose father, right in front of me, was telling his daughter that Truman Capote really wrote To Kill a Mockingbird.

Good god, she was responsible for K/S, too?!

We've really lost a luminary. I'm not being sarcastic.

[supergee]

It does seem likelier that Harper Lee wrote In Cold Blood.

Russ was probably the first critic with Serious Credentials to say that she liked K/S.

[laughingrat]

*grins happily*

[To clarify--not happily, in the circumstances, but you know.]

[dsgood]

For some cognitive dissonance, read her first published story: "Nor Custom Stale." A widow is properly subservient to her husband's ghost.