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And I Don’t Want to Live This Life by Deborah Spungen
And I Don’t Want to Live This Life by Deborah Spungen Random House, 1983 ISBN: 978-0449911419 432 p.p. Mothers are held to a standard of never speaking ill of their children regardless […]
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Vintage Books, 2013 ISBN: 978-0307476074 315 p.p. Wild may have been one of the most anticipated movies […]
Paradise Drive by Rebecca Foust
Paradise Drive by Rebecca Foust Press 53, 2014 ISBN: 978-1941209165 114 p.p. Paradise Drive, by Rebecca Foust, presents a sometimes ironic, sometimes serious, and always evocative look at a life that […]
The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman Scribner, 2014 ISBN-13: 978-1451693577 384 p.p. I drive 45 minutes for pizza when I really, really want it. That might sound crazy since […]
The Fierce Bums of Doo-Wop by Amber Atiya
the fierce bums of doo-wop by Amber Atiya Argos Books, 2014 “This is a language, therefore, of New York.” — oppen, of being numerous *** to encounter every book like […]
The Travels of Daniel Ascher by Déborah Lévy-Bertherat
The Travels of Daniel Ascher by Déborah Lévy-Bertherat Other Press, 2015 ISBN: 978-1590517079 208 p.p. The Travels of Daniel Ascher, by Déborah Lévy-Bertherat, is about the power and importance of […]
Mr. West by Sarah Blake
Mr. West by Sarah Blake Wesleyan University Press, 2015 ISBN: 978-0819575173 128 p.p. I do not understand Kanye West. I had a friend once who was in love with him, […]
After-Cave by Michelle Detorie
After-Cave by Michelle Detorie Ahsahta Press, 2014 ISBN: 978-1934013548 96 p.p. Michelle Detorie’s collection, After-Cave, begins with the quote: “To insist that something—someone or some being—cannot be imagined is, in […]
Interview: Hannah Brencher
Hannah Brencher is a writer, national speaker, founder of The World Needs More Love Letters, and spokesperson for the United States Postal Service. She took the TED stage at the […]
Interview: Iris Marble Cushing
Iris Marble Cushing was born in Tarzana, California. A former resident of Arizona, she has been a writer-in-residence at Grand Canyon National Park. She is the author of Wyoming, winner […]
The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay by Andrea Gillies
The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay by Andrea Gillies Other Press, 2015 ISBN: 978-1780722269 405 p.p. The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay By Andrea Gillies is a great story waiting to be pieced […]
Interview: Rachelle Cruz
Rachelle Cruz is a poet from Hayward, California. Her work has been featured in a number of magazines such as Yellow Medicine Review, Inlandia: A Literary Journey, and PANK Magazine. […]
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn Weidenfield & Nicolson, 2009 ISBN: 978-0753827031 424 p.p. I have Gillian Flynn fever. Second book of hers this month. I am hooked. Her debut novel, Sharp Objects, […]
Interview: Christie Watson
Christie Watson is a British novelist and pediatric nurse. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, where she won the Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Bursary, and […]
If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers by Hannah Brencher
If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers by Hannah Brencher Howard books, 2015 ISBN: 978-1476773605 247 p.p. Hannah Brencher’s memoir, If You […]
Interview: J. Jack Halberstam
Jack Halberstam is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of five books including: Skin Shows: Gothic […]
A Bigamist’s Daughter by Alice McDermott
A Bigamist’s Daughter by Alice McDermott Dell Publishing, 1982. ISBN: 978-0312573492 290 p.p. Half modern romance and half psychological portrait, McDermott’s A Bigamist’s Daughter explores the limitations and failed promises of […]
Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman
Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman Scribner, 2015 ISBN: 978-1476786568 237 p.p. Megan Mayhew Bergman’s Almost Famous Women is a collection of short stories that focus on amazing women, […]
Where Women are Kings by Christie Watson
Where Women are Kings by Christie Watson Other Press, 2015 ISBN: 978-1849163811 400 p.p. Where Women are Kings tells the story of young Elijah who is sure of two things: […]
Interview: Joanna Penn Cooper
Joanna’s books are The Itinerant Girl’s Guide to Self-Hypnosis and What Is a Domicile. Joanna Penn Cooper’s creative work has appeared in a number of journals, including South Dakota Review, Poetry International, Opium, Supermachine, Ping Pong, […]
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn Shaye Areheart Books, 2006 ISBN: 978-0753822210 321 p.p. Gillian Flynn’s debut novel, Sharp Objects, is definitely a page turner. It was an Edgar Award finalist and the winner […]
The Greenhouse by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet
The Greenhouse by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet Bull City Press, 2014 ISBN: 978-1424318025 The Greenhouse is a chapbook of new motherhood. Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet explores what it means to grapple with […]
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett HarperLuxe, 2009 ISBN: 978-0061719868 512 p.p. The way I choose books is the way some people might choose dates—I see what catches my eye in my […]
Interview: Virgie Tovar
Virgie Tovar is a widely-known queer activist, feminist, and author who is an expert on body image and fat discrimination. She is the editor of the anthology Hot & Heavy: […]
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Dover Publications, 1996 (First published in 1847) ISBN: 978-0486292564 256 p.p. Watching The Proposal initially struck an interest to reading Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights since […]
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Crown Publishing, 2014 ISBN: 978-0553418361 432 p.p. Any time a book goes viral I normally walk away from it—I was a reluctant Harry Potter reader […]
Happy are the Happy by Yasmina Reza
Happy are the Happy by Yasmina Reza Other Press, 2013 ISBN: 978-1846558009 224 p.p. Happy are the Happy is an examination of real-life as absurd as it can be. Yasmina […]
Interview: Mary Biddinger
Mary Biddinger is the author of the poetry collections Prairie Fever, Saint Monica, O Holy Insurgency, and A Sunny Place with Adequate Water. She is also co-editor of The Monkey […]
The Little Foxes By Lillian Hellman
The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman Dramatists Play Service, Inc. 1947 ISBN: 978-0822206774 72 p.p. Set in the deep south around the 1900’s, Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, focuses on three […]
Interview: Myriam Gurba
Myriam Gurba is a high school teacher who lives in Long Beach, California, home of Snoop Dogg and the Queen Mary (as she gamely notes). She graduated from UC Berkeley, and […]
Interview: Melissa Reeser Poulin and Jill McKenna Reed
Portland-based poets Melissa Reeser Poulin and Jill McKenna Reed are co-editors of Winged. Poulin conceived of Winged after the loss of over 50,000 bumble bees due to pesticide usage in Wilsonville, Oregon in June 2013. […]
Dreaming My Animal Selves by Hélène Cardona
Dreaming My Animal Selves by Hélène Cardona Salmon Poetry, 2013 ISBN: 978-1908836397 81 p.p Rich with images drawn from nature and mythology, the poems in Dreaming My Animal Selves are […]
Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America by Alicia Suskin Ostriker The Women’s Press: London, 1987 (First published by Beacon Press, Boston, MA, 1986) ISBN: 978-0807063033 315 p.p. […]
You’re Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation by Deborah Tannen
You’re Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation by Deborah Tannen Ballantine Books, 2006 ISBN: 978-08112972665 304 p.p. The mother-daughter relationship is very complex. Whether it’s existent or not, it has […]
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Knopf/Doubleday, 1998 (reprint) ISBN: 9780385490818 320 p.p. It was Christmas 2014 when I opened up one of the many packages that was undoubtedly a […]
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzi
I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education And Was Shot By The Taliban by Malala Yousafzi with Christina Lamb Little Brown and Company, 2013 ISBN:978-0316322409 464 p.p. […]
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Chocolat by Joanne Harris Penguin Books, 1999 ISBN: 978-0140282030 306 p.p. “Try me. Test me. Taste me.” The whispered words of temptation that haunt priest Reynaud may as well be directed […]
Winged: New Writing on Bees
Winged: New Writing on Bees Edited by Melissa Reeser Poulin & Jill McKenna Reed Poulin Publishing, 2014 ISBN: 978-0692274002 128 p.p. Winged: New Writing on Bees reminds us of the […]
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg Knopf, 2013 ISBN: 978-0385349949 240 p.p. Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In has received a lot of attention since it […]
Interview: Kristy Bowen
Kristy Bowen’s work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Stolen Island, Yew Journal, Projectile, Requited, Diagram and Delirious Hem. She is the author of several longer and shorter written (and occasionally visual) […]
Wish You Were Me by Myriam Gurba
Wish You Were Me by Myriam Gurba Future Tense Books, 2011 ISBN: 978-1892061409 44 p.p. In Wish You Were Me, Myriam Gurba will make you laugh and then cringe. Her […]
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
On Immunity: An Inoculation Eula Biss Graywolf Press, 2014 ISBN: 978-1555976897 205 p.p. Eula Biss’s On Immunity is a book-length essay broken into short chapters. The writing in this book […]
Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay Constable & Robinson Limited, 2014 ISBN: 978-1472119735 336 p.p. In Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay bears her feminism and tells readers that the concept is not black and […]
Interview: Michalle Gould
Michalle Gould has been working on the poems that constitute Resurrection Party for almost 15 years. In that time, her poems and short stories have appeared in Slate, New England Review, Poetry, American […]
Some Girls, Some Hats, and Hitler by Trudi Kanter
Some Girls, Some Hats, and Hitler by Trudi Kanter Scribner, 2012 ISBN: 978-1451688306 258 p.p There will never be a day when stories of intolerance will be irrelevant. Decades later, […]
Interview: Lisa M. Basile
Lisa Marie Basile is the author of Apocryphal, along with two chapbooks, Andalucia (Poetry Society of NY) and War/lock (Hyacinth Girl Press, February, 2015). She is the editor-in-chief of Luna Luna […]
Orange Mint and Honey by Carleen Brice
Orange Mint and Honey by Carleen Brice OneWorld/Ballantine, 2008 ISBN: 978-0345499066 336 p.p. Orange Mint and Honey by Carleen Brice tells the story of a mother and daughter whose differences push them to […]
Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger
Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger Harry N. Abrams; First Edition edition, 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1419707261 80 p.p. I came to Niffenegger the traditional way: through Time Traveler’s Wife and followed her […]
Interview: Bonnie Gillespie
Bonnie Gillespie is living her dream by helping others figure out how to live theirs. She casts SAG-AFTRA indie feature films and series such as the Machinima zombie smash hit Bite Me which made the leap from web […]
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