Women Writers Week 2022: Table of Contents

This week, all of our content on the site is written by women. We’ll update this table of contents page with links to new pieces as they go up. INTRO Introduction to Women Writers Week by Chaz Ebert & Nell Minow The Annotated Table of Contents and Bios for Women Writers Week 2022 by Chaz Ebert & Nell Minow REVIEW Calendar Girl by Sheila O’Malley Turning Red by Tomris Laffly TV REVIEW Abbott Elementary Is Bringing Earnest Back by Cristina Escobar NBC’s The Thing About Pam Should Have Been a Feature Film by Ciara Wardlow INTERVIEW Mary Beth Sobolewski: The Heart of Ty Beanie Babies by Sarah Knight Adamson ESSAYS Kirsten Dunst, Always on the Brink of Transformation by Justine Smith The Long, Strange Trip for Women Who Have Competed for the Best Director Oscar by Susan Wloszczyna  Pink Skies Ahead: Manic Pixie Dream Girls, Mental Illness, and Memory by Olivia Collette Scene Stealer: A Tribute to Isabel Jewell by Laura Emerick Swashbuckling Women by Laura Boyes Why Batman: The Animated Series Remains One of the Best Dark Knight Tales by Jessica Ritchey Women Film Editors: Shedding the Cloak of Invisibility by Beth Accomando BOOK EXCERPT When Women Invented Television by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong REPUBLISHED REVIEWS Asking For It by Ciara Wardlow The Batman by Christy Lemire CODA by Tomris Laffly Flee by Roxana Hadadi Fresh by Tomris Laffly Huda’s Salon by Sheila O’Malley Licorice Pizza by Christy Lemire The Lost Daughter by Sheila O’Malley Lucy and Desi by Nell Minow The Power of the Dog by Monica Castillo tick, tick…BOOM! by Nell Minow The Weekend Away by Marya E. Gates REPUBLISHED TV REVIEW Inventing Anna by Nandini Balial REPUBLISHED ESSAYS Bardcore Noir: Joel Coen, Shakespeare and The Tragedy of Macbeth by Abby Olcese The Burden Hollywood Puts on Black Storytellers (And How to Fix It) by Ciara Wardlow The Case for The Card Counter’s Tiffany Haddish as One of 2021’s Best Performances by Kayleigh Donaldson The Films of Cocaine Noir by Jessica Ritchey Love Your Enemies: A Biblical Reading of Michael Sarnoski’s Pig by Sarah Welch-Larson Ring the Alarm: The State of Black Kid Joy and What’s at Stake by Doreen Spicer-Dannelly Sun-Kissed Tension: On the Staying Power of Deray’s La Piscine by Farran Smith Nehme REBPULISHED TRIBUTE Betty White (1922-2021) by Nell Minow