'Gentrifier' crafts a narrative about Detroit in darkly comic vignettes
Culture critic Anne Elizabeth Moore's project is also an investigation of the costs — monetary, psychological, ethical — of the free house she was given for writing, and an ode to her neighbors.
What everyone remembers about Virginia Woolf's 1929 lecture-turned-essay "A Room of One's Own" is the adage that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
At the core of the essay, though, is not advice for individual women but, instead, for society at large. Woolf's larger thesis is that in considering the subject of "women and fiction," we must first consider the relationships among gender, money, education, creativity and opportunity.
In her new memoir Eisner Award-winning culture critic Anne Elizabeth Moore revisits Woolf's premise, refracting it through the lens of her experience of being awarded a "free"."
