Katha Pollitt Critical Essay | Interview by Katha Pollitt with Ruth Conniff

SOURCE: An interview, in The Progressive, Vol. 58, No. 12, December, 1994, pp. 34-40.

In the following interview, Pollitt discusses her political views and the differences between her poetry and prose.

"Although feminism came out of the Left and naturally belongs on the Left, sometimes you wouldn't know it.'

Like Broadway, the novel, and God, feminism has been declared dead many times," Katha Pollitt writes in the introduction to her new book, Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism, published in September by Knopf. Pollitt herself is one of feminism's liveliest writers, tackling, in her delightfully witty prose, such diverse issues as family values, breast implants, male Muppets, and the notion that women are somehow more special than men. Her book is comprised of the essays and regular columns she writes for The Nation, as well as pieces that first appeared in The New Yorker and The New York...
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