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The inspiration for this issue of Register came from Marianne
DeKoven’s wonderful book, Rich and Strange. Part of what
the book explores is how the writing of women has been
marginalized throughout time in the canon, and posits that
this marginalization partially comes from a lack of exposure
in history. Although we have come a long way, the dialogue
that arches over literature is one created by men. This month
we present only writings by women. Some articles talk about
what it means to be a woman writer, or to write about women,
and others if there is any difference between the genders in
what they write and how. We hope that by taking full space
to consider how women are thinking about literature we can
expand the conversation around gender in writing today. As
with every issue we are bringing new voices into the narrative,
be it through our New Fiction category or In Translation, in
which we are excited to share a story by Clarice Lispector, who
only in the past few years has been translated from Spanish.
Thank you for reading,
Elizabeth Pike - Editor in chief
‘A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not
waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking
thoughts. But really a novel goes as dreams go in sleeping
at night and some dreams are like anything and some dreams
are like something and some dreams change and some dreams
are quiet and some dreams are not. And some dreams are just
what any one would do only a little different always just a little
different and that is what a novel is.’
– Gertrude Stein