Brenda Webster's Writings
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Jul.29.2011
Red Room Original
It was hard to believe that this portly, grandmotherly woman wearing a gray sweater and skirt was considered a threat to the state. It was 1997, and the late Ayse Nur Zarakolu,the only woman publisher in Instanbul, had just returned from a military court. She was pleased that her trial over the Armenian genocide book was over, but she still had an...
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Feb.05.2010
The New Yorker Book Bench Blog
by Thessaly La Force
I was late the other night to a panel at the Austrian Cultural Forum. Let me explain. It was cold. Not only that, but there was no easy way for me to get there on the subway, and I’ve become slightly (just slightly) obstinate about spending money on cabs. So I walked.
Austrians, it turns out, don’t like it when you’re tardy. “It’s already...
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Jan.06.2010
Pen Women Presents Eileen Malone with Brenda Webster
Watch here! http://www.blip.tv/file/2424512
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Feb.25.2009
First Books: How Writers Get Started
The San Francisco Chronicle says Brenda Webster’s newest novel, Vienna Triangle, “offers a fascinating glimpse into the origins of the psychoanalytic movement … explores some of the most brilliant members of Sigmund Freud’s inner circle of disciples” combining Webster’s “impressive knowledge of Freudian theory with a novelist’s intuitive understanding of...
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Oct.07.2008
The following is an exclusive chapter-long excerpt from Vienna Triangle.
Brenda Webster’s critically acclaimed memoir, The Last Good Freudian, gave us “a powerful critique of orthodox psychoanalysis without engaging in Freud bashing” (San Francisco Chronicle) and a “fascinating glimpse into the heyday of American psychotherapy” (Booklist).
Webster’s Vienna...
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Aug.20.2008
Introduction to the New American Library edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
A huge green knight arrives at King Arthur’s court and, swaggering arrogantly, challenges someone to behead him with the proviso that he can return the blow in a year and a day. Gawain accepts. The giant kneels and throws his green hair forward to bare a neck thick as a tree. A minute later his head is rolling across the ground. Laughing, the courtiers kick it...
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Short Story
Jul.29.2008
Women's Studies 2002
Brenda Webster Author of VIENNA TRIANGLE forthcoming Jan.09 from Wings Press "...a fascinating dramatization...An extraordinary set of people...poses crucial questions about women, war, psychoanalysis..." - Rosellen Brown author of Before and After.
"Don't call her. That's the worst thing you could do for her. She'd just drag you into a morass of...
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Jul.22.2008
Women Reading Blake edited by Helen Bruder (Macmillan)
When Helen asked me to write something about Blake for her new Anthology, I was reluctant; I had been away from the field too long-- 25 years. Then I read a draft of Diane Hume George’s fascinating essay about what happened when she tried to live-out Blake’s visions of sexual sharing. Her essay could have been written to illustrate my belief that Blake is a...
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Short Story
Jul.16.2008
Zyzzyva The Last Word: West Coast Writers and Artists
I first met Gina in 1961 at a beach resort outside of Rome when the water was still unpolluted, and the glamorous people of Italy’s Golden Age could be seen showing off their tans. She was heavily pregnant with her first child. She didn’t yet know it would be her daughter Gabriella. She didn’t yet know it would be her only child. She didn’t know the grief it...
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Jun.30.2008
PersimmonTree.org
Rachel was bitterly disappointed when David, her son, and Frida, his wife, didn’t want to go back to Hawai’i for the winter break this year. In the past she and her husband had loved the quiet lagoon and the thatched huts. David explained that there were too many rich people at the resort, and he wanted to go some place where the huts were real and he could...
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About Brenda
Brenda Webster was born in New York City, educated at Swarthmore College, Columbia University, and University of California, Berkeley, where she earned her Ph.D. She is a freelance writer, critic, and translater who splits her time between Berkeley and Rome,...
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