Jealous Laughter | Joanna Biggs | Granta

‘The men might not like it, but in 2023 women are overwhelmingly the ones who write, read, edit and buy books, particularly fiction.’

Jealous Laughter | Joanna Biggs | Granta Skip to main content Jealous Laughter Joanna Biggs it exists --> A friend of mine used to joke that women writers discovered friendship in 2015, when the last volume of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet came out. I laughed, but I knew what he meant. It is easy to think of men who navigated the literary world together: Jonson and Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Johnson and Boswell, Shelley and Byron, Marx and Engels, Sartre and Camus, Bellow and Roth, Hughes and Heaney, Amis and Barnes. In Weimar for a day in summer 2014, bitter laughter rose in

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