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This list has a bunch of great suggestions, including MARGARET AND THE MISSING BODY! Thanks @Book Riot!
If you can't get enough of the Zendaya-led show Euphoria, Here are some books to hold you over until season 3.
"I wanted to see if the HBO series would still try to defend the book’s 'realistic' apocalypse, in which nothing but whiteness is imagined to survive." On how the HBO adaptation of STATION ELEVEN avoids the novel's tendency to center white middle-class culture as the default.
The adaptation of the novel disrupts the typical apocalypse story by allowing marginalized characters to survive
No spoilers, but Min Jin Lee's PACHINKO, Haruki Murakami's "Drive My Car," and Patricia Highsmith's DEEP WATER might feature here. 👀
Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and documentaries into their ever-rotating libraries. So what’s a dedicated reader to w…
Edgar Gomez, author of the memoir High-Risk Homosexual (2022), discusses intersectional identity, overcoming fear, and living life on his own terms.
“High-Risk Homosexual” pulls apart the neat narratives we often see about what it means to come out—and to pursue your creative dreams.
"In this essay, Rachel Taube speaks to her cohort members regarding their first year post-MFA."
Whatever your MFA experience, it takes time to create or recreate the life that you can keep writing in. In this essay, Rachel Taube speaks to her cohort members regarding their first year post-MFA.
"This is what Disney leaves out: not the danger, but the awareness of danger; not the growing up, but the awareness of the changes that must come." Read more on Electric Literature.
Nan Cohen reconsiders Disney’s sanitized film version of Felix Salten’s classic novel
"Instead of engaging with the white gaze, my fiction is interested in exploring the various ways in which our brown communities have endured marginalization and the ways in which we reproduce the colonizer within." Read more on Catapult.
Nikhita Obeegadoo interviews Namrata Poddar on her new novel, Border Less, and place and displacement as key ideas in her work.
“'Please Miss,' on some level, is an attempt to grapple with some of the beauty and horror of the body as something that I inhabit or that we all inhabit."
“Someone I used to live with described my writing process as watching someone vomit compulsively for hours at a time.”
Author Kalani Pickhart recommends some Ukrainian literary classics.
Books about the fight for Ukrainian democracy
Looking for your next #Latinx read? Find your next binge book here!
I have always believed in the fantastical. As a kid growing up in Queens, New York, I was bored with the mundane world. I wanted a gateway to take me to another land with supernatural creatures and…
An interesting read by Ms. Magazine to round out your Friday Eve!
Simple technical fixes can automate and elevate or surface women’s voices in online search algorithms, so women’s voices rank with men’s.
Congratulations again to FP author Grace M. Cho on her recent release Tastes Like War!
A well-received book published last year propelled Chehalis onto a national stage but left it with a black eye. “Tastes Like War,” a 296-page memoir written by Grace M. Cho, a …
Happy #2/22/22! Here's a list of 16 fiction books by women authors you'll definitely want to check out.
Just in case you needed something to look forward to.
This Black History Month, check out how libraries are empowering Black authors.
Little free libraries in St. Peterburg hope to help highlight black voices in the community this Black History Month. It comes during a movement in the publishing industry to get more Black authors published.
"There’s another truth, which is that queer lives have long been central to literary writing too, both as the subjects of fantasy for writers living under compulsory heterosexuality, and as remnants of the queer world outside the family home—the world that art allows us to access, assemble, and manifest."
We still tend to think of queer literature as having been consigned to the margins of literary history, before the successful liberation of queer writers in the last half century. There is somethin…
Pushing publishers to include translators' names on book covers isn't just about getting credit for the physical act of translation, says renowned translator Jennifer Croft: “We should receive credit, but also have to take responsibility for the work we have done.”
Jennifer Croft, who translates the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk, is leading a push for her peers and their work to receive more recognition.
Need something to fill that void while you're waiting for Season 2? This list is packed with wonderful authors like Helen Oyoyemi and Quan Barry.
It's not all plane crashes and cannibalism, but these books just scream with the same tone and vibe we love from Yellowjackets.
Brazilian author Djamila Ribeiro on her efforts to help democratize Brazil's publishing industry: “I always want to write in a way that my mother would understand. ... I felt a calling to be generous enough to write in the same accessible way that generous authors before me wrote, because otherwise you only legitimize the power spheres of those who are privileged.”
Young Black Brazilians are publishing on their own terms, achieving the critical and commercial success that eluded past generations of writers from marginalized communities.
It's always a good time to learn more about absolute legend Gwendolyn Brooks! Thanks to the History of Literature podcast, you can even do it while you're washing the dishes.
For tens of thousands of years, human beings have been using fictional devices to shape their worlds and communicate with one another. Four thousand years ago they began writing down these stories,…
"What is it like to break with convention? To go against expectations? To slip out of the mainstream?"
Kiare Ladner, author of Nightshift, recommends books about living outside the mainstream
"Evaluating classic books wasn’t just an intellectual exercise to satisfy my curiosity. I needed an answer as a writer of color living in America. I needed to understand what the boundaries are in my own writing."
From Steinbeck to Foster, Cindy Fazzi reexamines some of literature’s most loved classic novels
In this week's book censorship roundup: why the removal of MAUS in Tennessee is censorship, and the removal of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD in Washington is not.
Book challenges intensify, parents sever board members papers during a meeting, and more of this week's censorship news.
Chris M. Arnone recommends eight books by or featuring lesser-known writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
Here are eight plays, poetry collections, and novels by or featuring these lesser-known writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
"I knew I wanted to expand the story to talk about the legacy and the memory that Black students have and continue to create on campuses where we are often not seen, and forgotten."
In “Admissions,” Kendra James opens up about her difficult time at the elite Taft School.
This quiz asks all the important questions about romance tropes and queer celebrity couples. (We're going for fake dating every time, hands-down.)
Take the quiz to figure out which romance read is a good fit for you.
"Publishers Brunch is evidently someone who works from within the belly of the beast, calling for workers’ rights and doing so with levity."
In an interview with Catapult magazine, Publishers Brunch shares how Instagram memes foster a sense of community in the publishing industry.
TBR list needing a boost? R.O. Kwon, author of the national bestselling novel THE INCENDIARIES and co-editor of the national bestselling anthology KINK, recommends 62 books by women of color to read in 2022.
An ever-expanding literary landscape offers important, rarely told stories
Happy #BookBirthday to Malika Moustadraf's BLOOD FEAST, translated by Alice Guthrie! Grab this cult classic wherever books are sold, including The Seminary Co-op Bookstores https://bit.ly/338pP8b
Translator Laura McGloughlin recommends her favorite Catalan literature
I’ve been a translator from Catalan for almost fourteen years, and something that never fails to astonish me is the vibrancy of the Catalan literary tradition. Whether a re-discovered classic or a …
"Challenges to books about sexual and racial identity are nothing new in American schools, but the tactics and politicization are."
Challenges to books about sexual and racial identity are nothing new in American schools, but the tactics and politicization are.
Join us on February 11 at 5pm EST for the virtual launch of Malika Moustadraf's BLOOD FEAST! Featuring translator Alice Guthrie and writer Omar Berrada. Hosted by Brookline Booksmith.
This event will take place virtually on Zoom. Click the button above to register. Join the Transnational Literature Series for a virtual event with translator Alice Guthrie to discuss and celebrate the release of Blood Feast: The Complete Short S...
We love seeing all the different covers for KIM JI-YOUNG, BORN 1982! Which is your favorite?
Although the pandemic has put overseas travels on hold to a great extent, Korean literature has constantly made daring adventures beyond borders. Over the past five years, 34 works of Korean literature have sold over 5,000 copies each in overseas book markets, according to the Literature Translation...
"'Recitatif,' written by Morrison in the early 1980s and rarely seen over the following decades, follows the lives of two women from childhood to their contrasting fortunes as adults."
Written in the early 1980s and rarely seen since, the story follows the lives of two women — one Black, the other white — from their childhoods.
"The thing that really makes this movie stand out, amongst all the other Manhattan-based rom-coms, is that in this one, books are sort of bad."
On New Year’s Day, I found myself watching one of the most delightful rom-coms I have ever seen but had only heard about recently. All hail Crossing Delancey, a film that came out (coincident…
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The TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NEGRO GIRLS audiobook is here! Thanks to our pals at Blackstone Publishing, you can now listen to Camille Acker's flawless symphony of stories while you fold your laundry, drive to the store, or walk your pup! You’ll be in good company with narrators Bahni Turpin and Janina Edwards.
How amazing is this Molly Crabapple cover? Copies of PRETTY THINGS are shipping today, so if you preordered, you'll soon be able to see it in person! We can't wait to hear what you think... http://bit.ly/2EKx6xP
Stacks on stacks on stacks... of books! We are so excited to be shipping preorders of Virgie Tovar's YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN FAT today. It's the perfect read to end the summer 😎 http://bit.ly/2yhxhwv
We’re live with Ivelisse Rodriguez to talk about her new collection LOVE WAR STORIES! #fplive
We went live with TENEMENTAL author Vikki Warner!
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We’re live at FP HQ with AGAINST MEMOIR author Michelle Tea, in conversation with FP ED Jamia Wilson! Join us!
Is it a bird? A plane? Oh wait, it’s AGAINST MEMOIR hopping to the top of your TBR pile. Happy #BookBirthday to this gem by Michelle Tea! http://bit.ly/2iH5fnx
YOUR ART WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE author Beth Pickens talks with editor Alyea Canada. Join us! Update: the video is sideways at the beginning (sorry!) but it corrects. Thanks for your understanding!
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“I want to say thank you to everyone who has supported the Feminist Press. It’s so wonderful to have independent presses putting out books like this! Thank you.” - Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, editor of Go Home! Go Home! Is a wonderful anthology of Asian diasporic writers, but it’s also a testament to the power of storytelling to build community across borders and a true example of FPs dedicated investment in immigrant writers–– thanks to your support! Donate to #BooksAcrossBorders to help us continue to publish incredible books like Go Home! http://bit.ly/2sZ0NZM
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RADICAL REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE - editors Loretta Ross and Lynn Roberts talk to assistant editor Alyea Canada about their new book and the future of the RJ movement!
THE ILIAC CREST- FP author Cristina Rivera Garza chats with editor Lauren Hook about her gothic novel!
We Were Witches- FP author Ariel Gore chats with publicist Wren Hanks about her wicked new novel! 👻
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