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b'Michelle Dean is a journalist and critic. Her new book is Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion.\\n\\n \\u201cThere isn\\u2019t one answer. I wish there was one answer. The answer is: You just have to wing it. And I\\u2019m learning that \\u2014 I\\u2019m learning to be okay with the winging it. ... I guess the lesson to me of what went on with a lot of women in the book is: You have to be comfortable with the fact that some days are going to be good, and some days are going to not be good.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n@michelledean\\nmichelledean.tumblr.com\\nDean on Longform\\n[00:45] Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion (Grove Press \\u2022 2018)\\n[01:35] "Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom To Be Murdered" (Buzzfeed \\u2022 Aug 2016)\\n[08:10] annefriedman.com\\n[08:50] "The Daily Show\'s Woman Problem" (Irin Carmon \\u2022 Jezebel \\u2022 June 2010)\\n[09:20] "Someone Got \'The Daily Show\' in My Jezebel and Together They Taste A Little Weird" (The Awl \\u2022 July 2010)\\n[15:20] "Waterworld Review" (KillerMovies \\u2022 July 1995)\\n[20:25] Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace (D. T. Max \\u2022 Penguin Books \\u2022 2013)\\n[20:35] "A Supposedly True Thing Jonathan Franzen Said About David Foster Wallace" (The Awl \\u2022 Oct 2011)\\n[26:25] "The Perils of Pauline" (Renata Adler \\u2022 The New York Review of Books \\u2022 Aug 1980)\\n[28:30] "How Unauthorized Is the New Book About Harper Lee?" (Gawker \\u2022 July 2014)\\n[31:05] Dean\\u2019s Archive on The Guardian\\n[30:20] How Should A Person Be (Sheila Heti \\u2022 Picador \\u2022 2013)\\n[35:30] "True Lives" (James Wood \\u2022 The New Yorker \\u2022 June 2012)\\n[35:40] "Listening to Women" (Slate \\u2022 June 2012)\\n[40:30] Longform Podcast #156: Renatta Adler\\n[51:05] Mommy Dead and Dearest (Erin Lee Carr \\u2022 2017)\\n[51:15] Longform Podcast #248: Erin Lee Carr\\n[64:00] Gerard Manley Hopkins\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'