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by popular demand (no one at all asked for this) i am going to repost my ‘women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette’ series in the one thread (in fits and starts) #smokingauthors
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 1 in a series: Carson McCullers
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 2 in a series: Joan Didion
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 3 in a series: Muriel Spark
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 4 in a series: Françoise Sagan
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 5 in a series: Herta Müller
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 6 in a series: Clarice Lispector
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 7 in a series: Virginia Woolf
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 8 in a series: Lillian Hellman
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 9 in a series: Anne Sexton
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 10 in a series: Zora Neale Hurston
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 11 in a series: Gloria Steinem
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 12 in a series: Daphne du Maurier
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 13 in a series: Colette
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 14 in a series: Fran Lebowitz
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 15 in a series: Dorothy Parker
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 16 in a series: Maeve Brennan
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 17 in a series: Marguerite Duras
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 18 in a series: Zelda Fitzgerald
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 19 in a series: Susan Sontag
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 20 in a series: Hannah Arendt
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 21 in a series: Jean Rhys
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 22 in a series: Adrienne Rich
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 23 in a series: Edna O’Brien
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 24 in a series: Martha Gellhorn (and some bloke)
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 25 in a series: Oriana Fallaci
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 26 in a series: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 27 in a series: Harper Lee
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 28 in a series: Anaïs Nin
Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 29 in a series: Beryl Bainbridge
