Best of...Difficult Women

Our favorite difficult women

By LARB Radio HourMarch 9, 2020

...and now for something completely difficult. We are inaugurating a new project, the "Best of..." series. Inspired by our annual holiday season "Best of..." special, in which Eric, Kate, and Daya pick their faves from the previous year; the new series differs in one significant way, each episode is organized around one theme - today's is Difficult Women. So, expect to be challenged and meta-challenged! The show opens with a brief discussion about the new series; then Kate explains what inspired her to propose this week's theme; followed by three sets of three engaging discussions about three difficult women - "thrice to thine and thrice to mine / And thrice again. to make up nine."

Our best of choices are...

Kate's Best Of:

Delphine from The Green Ray by Eric Roehmer

Wanda, from Wanda by Barbara Loden

Sophie Calle, artist

Eric's Best Of:

Djuna Barnes, author of Nightwood
Andrea Dworkin, feminist critic

Azalea Banks

Bonus Round: Judith Butler

Medaya's Best Of:

Lucy Snowe, protagonist of Villette by Charlotte Brontë 
Mariah Carey, diva

Angela Davis & Gayatri Spivak, professors