Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories

The author is a renowned writer for such outlets as The Nation. She tells stories on herself, often with some self-deprecatory sense, and always with humor...except for one or two places where the anger overcomes the humor, but even then, humor is able to sneak up on you and surprise you in the middle of a rant about global warming or women's role in household chores. She is candid about her life, her loves, and her experience with the Communist Party and many of the fellow travelers. It is interesting to see such history from the eyes of one who lived it, who answered the door as a youngster to FBI agents, and can now speak of the experience with the candor that comes from distance. I don't agree with her on everything, but I find a show more lot in her writing to agree with, even more to make me think, and a number of things to celebrate. Well worth the time. show less

A really interesting, thoughtful, thought-provoking book. What is feminism? What should it be? There are also moments of real laugh-out-loud humor.

When people hear "feminist author" I wish it was Katha Pollitt's wry, revealing writing that came to mind first. She is a first-rate essayist.

When people hear "feminist author" I wish it was Katha Pollitt's wry, revealing writing that came to mind first. She is a first-rate essayist.

These are wonderful essays by an excellent journalist. Very much worth reading.