long nonfiction reviews

Great quote from The Soap Opera Is Dead! Long Live the Soap Opera! by Rebecca Traister: "The daytime industry they built, like any feminized (and thereby marginalized) genre, was one in which borders went unpatrolled; that, along with a culture of mentorship, meant that other ambitious and talented women unable to find purchase in prime time or film became soap-opera producers and writers at roughly the same rate as men — a still-inconceivable parity."

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