Anna Clark

Anna Clark

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Who I am:

I am a 29-year-old writer living in Detroit, Michigan.

Recent Articles

The Ambition Condition

Women, Writing, and the Problem of Success
The Ambition Condition
Article by Anna Clark, Illustrated by Meg Hunt, appeared in issue Loud; published in 2008; filed under Social commentary; tagged alternative literary culture, ambitous women, devaluing women's voices, female writers, literary sexism.

Perhaps you know about Emily Gould’s cover story, “Exposed,” in the New York Times Magazine last May. Even if you didn’t take in all 8,002 words on the former Gawker editor’s gains and losses from blogging about her personal life, it would be hard to miss the criticism of the piece elsewhere. From the Huffington Post to the Philadelphia Weekly to an untold number of blogs and listservs, the backlash challenged the magazine for peddling narcissistic Dear-Diary diatribes as a worthy journalistic cover story.


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Jail Bait

Rethinking Images of Incarcerated Women
Article by Anna Clark, Illustrated by Omar Lee, appeared in issue Home & Away; published in 2005; filed under Film; tagged criminal justice, fantasy, media, prison reform, race, stereotypes.

It is not my pleasure to remind anyone of the 2001 teen flick Sugar & Spice. Teetering between the black humor of Heathers and the girly glitz of Clueless, it achieves the success of neither, and I bring it up now only because of a single scene.

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