Former Ms editor Elaine Lafferty leads a discussion with fellow writers Louise Bernikow, Jessica Segal and other special guest about the pleasures and challenges of working at the most influential popular feminist magazine in US history.
The event marks the publication of 50 Years of Ms: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution, just out from Knopf. The anthology collects some of the most ground-breaking pieces on women, men, politics, marriage, family, education, work and more. It also includes provocative fiction, poetry and letters.
Elaine Lafferty is a former staff correspondent for TIME magazine, editor in chief of Ms. magazine, and correspondent for the Dublin-based The Irish Times. She was also features editor at MORE magazine, and her work has been published in The Nation, The Daily Beast, and The New York Observer.
Ms. Lafferty has a home on the East End.
