{"product_id":"sharp-9780802129246","title":"Sharp","description":"Widely praised in hardcover, \u003ci\u003eSharp\u003c\/i\u003e is the exhilarating story of ten exceptional women who used the power of their pens to carve out space for themselves in a world where men wrote the rules. \u003cp\u003e Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm are united by what Dean calls \"sharpness,\" the ability to cut to the quick with precision of thought and wit. \u003ci\u003eSharp\u003c\/i\u003e is a vibrant depiction of the intellectual \u003ci\u003ebeau monde\u003c\/i\u003e of twentieth-century New York, where gossip-filled parties at night gave out to literary slugging-matches in the pages of the \u003ci\u003ePartisan Review\u003c\/i\u003e or the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. It is also a passionate portrayal of how these women asserted themselves through their writing in a climate where women were treated with extreme condescension by the male-dominated cultural establishment. Mixing biography, literary criticism, and cultural history, \u003ci\u003eSharp\u003c\/i\u003e is a testament to how anyone who feels powerless can claim the mantle of writer, and, perhaps, change the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichelle Dean\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist, critic, and the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle's 2016 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. A contributing editor at the \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, she has written for the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492050211090,"sku":"9780802129246","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d0f6dd98-8b7a-4976-80ce-6185144d6c0d.jpg?v=1730568918","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sharp-9780802129246","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}