Katie Fitzpatrick

Katie Fitzpatrick

Katie Fitzpatrick is a PhD candidate at Brown University, researching law and democracy in the 20th-century American novel. Her writing has also appeared in Post45, The Point, and Novel: A Forum on Fiction.


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Writing on Public Books

Is the Law Our Ally? Lessons from World War II

With Europe still reeling from the effects of World War II, the Allied forces set to work prosecuting a monumental trial …

Feminist Auteurs

“Dialogue memorized, scenes recalled: we became our own insular world of reference and repetition. If you didn’t know the films, you didn’t know us.” This is protagonist Carrie Wexler’s description of her intense adolescent friendship with Meadow Mori in Dana Spiotta’s powerful new book, Innocents and Others. With it, Carrie throws down a challenge to […]