Introduction and Virginia + Colette | Issue 11

by Gail Scott | from Permanent Revolution

Gail Scott | Photo by Leila Marshy

Excerpt from Permanent Revolution

INTRODUCTION

[2020]

I love the immediacy of the essay form, its way of intersecting with the period in which it is written. These essays from Spaces Like Stairs [1989] accompanied the writing of Heroine + Main Brides, my two most feminist novels. They resonate with a decade of remarkable f…