The Power Notebooks, Katie Roiphe
The Power Notebooks, Katie Roiphe
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The Power Notebooks

Author: Katie Roiphe

Narrator: Katie Roiphe

Unabridged: 6 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/03/2020


Synopsis

Katie Roiphe, culture writer and author of The Morning After, shares a “beautifully written” (The New York Times Book Review) “astute memoir [that] reverberates with rich prose, crisp pacing, and self-compassion” (Publishers Weekly) and an essential discussion of how strong women experience their power.

Told in a series of notebook entries, Roiphe weaves her often fraught personal experiences with divorce, single motherhood, and relationships with insights into the lives and loves of famous writers such as Sylvia Plath and Simone de Beauvoir. She dissects the way she and other ordinary, powerful women have subjugated their own power time and time again, and she probes brilliantly at the tricky, uncomfortable question of why.

“Although Ms. Roiphe seems to be exposing her vulnerabilities here, she is actually, once again, demonstrating her unique brand of fearlessness” (The Wall Street Journal). The Power Notebooks is Roiphe’s most vital, thought-provoking, and emotionally intimate work yet.

About Katie Roiphe

Katie Roiphe is an author and journalist writing about feminist issues. She is best known for writing The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism, and In Praise of Messy Lives, as well as The Power Notebooks, and has contributed articles to prominent publications like The New York TimesThe Washington PostHarper’s MagazineEsquireThe Paris ReviewVogue, and Slate. She has a PhD in literature from Princeton University and is the director of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Unnati

I have to confess that I really enjoyed this book. For starters, Katie's writing is well-paced. She leaves you with your thoughts very quickly after saying what she has to. Yet, this becomes troubling when she engages with subjects such as abuse and sexual harassment. The implications of her explora......more

Goodreads review by Matthew

There are things straight women don’t get about straight guys—like old guys’ penchant for younger girls, a puzzlement that gets a workout in this book. But there are things straight guys don’t get about straight women—in particular, the addiction to a certain kind of vain, obviously weak, insecurity......more

Goodreads review by David

The sort of feminist text I'm addicted to, women talking honestly about their abjection and desire. Though it never seems to land on a distinct conclusion, a lot of very compelling reflections on the power dynamics that can exist between two people, particularly between coupled men and women. Reads......more

Goodreads review by Shane

I’ve been riding the Roiphe train for the past month. It began with my discovery of Katie’s mother, Anne Roiphe, one of the early defenders of feminism--not the men-must-cease-to-exist type, but rather a more moderate variety, where men are at least permitted in the picture. Katie seems to have shad......more