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Are powerful female characters in books like Gerald’s Game, Rose Madder, and Dolores Claiborne to be automatically labeled as sexist creations simply because Stephen King is male?Īnother writer that I feel often comes under unfair criticism is Murakami Haruki, who is ridiculed by one faction of thinkers (like Miyoshi Masao and Ōe Kenzaburō) for being too accessible and not literary enough while at the same time attacked by another faction (of mainly French and American scholars) for being a stereotypical representative of the male-dominated literary establishment.

This way of thinking is flawed for several reasons (one of the most obvious being that if gender is performative, then the act of writing gender is exponentially so), and I object to it because it unthinking dismisses the work of several of my favorite authors as unworthy of attention. I suppose I have been reacting, in part, to a school of thought that seems to hold that anything written by a man is inherently sexist, whereas anything written by a woman must be feminist. Upon re-reading my reviews of Lala Pipo and Audition, I realized that sexism in narratives penned by male authors has been one of my major preoccupations during the past few months. Publication Year: 1993 (America) 1985 (Japan)

Run the eggs over cold water, or let them soak in water with ice for at least five minutes.Title: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.

Drain the eggs carefully, or grab them using a slotted spoon.

Let the eggs steam for 10 minutes before removing the lid.

Once boiling, turn off the heat and cover the pot.

Heat the eggs on the stove until the water is boiling.

Cover the eggs with cold water, until they are completely submerged.

Place all six eggs carefully into a pot.

When I do this, the eggshells just slide right off. I like to cool the eggs using cold water immediately after, then sometimes I even peel the eggs under the cold water after a few minutes. Waiting for the eggs to cool naturally before peeling has never worked for me. In my expertise, here's what I've learned during my many times of making hard-boiled eggs: Peeling the eggs as soon as they are cool is the best time to do it. 4 Once completely cool, peel Kiersten Hickman/Eat This, Not That!