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How Audre Lorde’s Genre-Blurring ZAMI Spoke SKYE PAPERS author Jamika Ajalon's Truth Into Existence
I think it’s the one photo that might have survived the bonfire. The one my roommate took that time she snuck in, freezing into eternity the moment my lover and I lay intertwined in postcoital glow…
From Claire Fuller's UNSETTLED GROUND to Anjali Enjeti's THE PARTED EARTH, here are 18 new books to add to your reading list, via BuzzFeed Books
Family secrets, popular culture, literary experimentation, and more to love in these new and forthcoming books.
"Will writers—either consciously or subconsciously—start writing books so that they sound good when read aloud?"—Laura Lindstedt, via Literary Hub
Translated by David Hackston. To all intents and purposes, a psychoanalyst’s couch is in fact a bed—after all, it lacks a back and armrests. And yet, this item of furniture must be called a couch. …
"HOLA PAPI is a master class of tone and tenderness, as Brammer balances self-compassion with humor."— Matt Wille on John Paul Brammer's incredible new "memoir through essays," via The New York Times Books
In “Hola Papi,” the writer John Paul Brammer mines his own experiences and traumas to deliver wisdom for queer readers.
"As someone who never had a squad or a crew, a book club felt like it could be the way I’d find them."
Christina Simon on finding her reading community, via Electric Literature
When private clubs shut me out, I found the reading community I was looking for at the public library
RSVP now for this incredible Women & Children First Bookstore event! https://tinyurl.com/ad47shc7
RSVP now for this incredible Women & Children First Bookstore event! https://tinyurl.com/ad47shc7
Join us on June 22 for a celebration of Grace M. Cho's TASTES LIKE WAR, with guest Sun Yung Shin. Hosted by our friends at Greenlight Bookstore.
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Join us on June 22 for a celebration of Grace M. Cho's TASTES LIKE WAR, with guest Sun Yung Shin. Hosted by our friends at Greenlight Bookstore.
RSVP now: https://tinyurl.com/9y2nha34
Kiese Laymon Recommends Describing Your Writer’s Block to Get Through It
Kiese Laymon’s Long Division—first published in 2013—is being reissued by Scribner, so we thought we’d ask him a few questions about writing process, favorite books, and writing an “internet novel”…
In her new book POP SONG: ADVENTURES IN ART AND INTIMACY, writer Larissa Pham searches high and low for the "it factor," via NYLON
In her new book "Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy," writer Larissa Pham searches high and low for the "it factor."
When you're 18 minutes into your self-imposed book buying ban and see a new novel you want.
When you're 18 minutes into your self-imposed book buying ban and see a new novel you want.
Happy #PubDay to Jamika Ajalon's SKYE PAPERS!
In fluid and unrelenting prose, Jamika Ajalon's debut novel explores youth, poetry, and what it means to come terms with queerness. SKYE PAPERS is an imaginative, episodic group portrait of a transatlantic art scene spearheaded by people of color—and of the fraught, dystopian reality of increasing state surveillance.
Get your copy from Women & Children First Bookstore today https://bit.ly/35IddFr
Happy #PubDay to Jamika Ajalon's SKYE PAPERS!
In fluid and unrelenting prose, Jamika Ajalon's debut novel explores youth, poetry, and what it means to come terms with queerness. SKYE PAPERS is an imaginative, episodic group portrait of a transatlantic art scene spearheaded by people of color—and of the fraught, dystopian reality of increasing state surveillance.
Get your copy from Women & Children First Bookstore today https://bit.ly/35IddFr
"Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words."— ✨Happy Birthday to Gwendolyn Brooks, born this day in 1917✨
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"Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words."— ✨Happy Birthday to Gwendolyn Brooks, born this day in 1917✨
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Adding all 7 of Jonathan Parks-Ramage's recommendations to our TBR!!
Jonathan Parks-Ramage, author of "Yes, Daddy," on stories that defy expectations
"I’m always interested in nostalgia and the ways that it sabotages us"— Kristen Arnett talks to Emma Specter about her *incredible* new book, WITH TEETH via Vogue
“With Teeth” is out from Riverhead on June 1.
Do you have your copy of SOMEBODY'S DAUGHTER yet? This Nylah Burton interview with author Ashley C. Ford will have you running out to buy it! via Bitch Media
We have to be open to the idea that love can look and be so many different ways.
We can't wait to read THE OTHER BLACK GIRL. Have you picked up a copy yet?
Zakiya Dalila Harris, a former editorial assistant, is making a splash with “The Other Black Girl,” her debut novel about an African-American woman navigating a nearly all-white workplace.
"I feel very blessed to have grown up in a community and in a family where the idea of making art—and specifically writing, but just making art generally—was normal and accepted."
An inspiring interview with sociologist, poet, and comics writer Eve L. Ewing on community, Black girlhood, flight, and Chicago at Catapult.
"I believe there are many pathways to art."
Don't miss the launch of Grace M. Cho's TASTES LIKE WAR with special guest Noah Cho! Hosted by Elliott Bay Book Company.
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Don't miss the launch of Grace M. Cho's TASTES LIKE WAR with special guest Noah Cho! Hosted by Elliott Bay Book Company.
RSVP now: https://tinyurl.com/4nzwpyv7
Who deserves a book deal? Today we're reading about book publishing's "existential crisis" in this smart overview of the industry's recent controversies, from American Dirt to Mike Pence and Kellyanne Conway to Exonerated Five prosecutor Linda Fairstein.
As former Trump officials and other polarizing figures seek book deals, publishing is caught in a generational battle that’s becoming an existential crisis.
"In America, change is not made by heroic individuals. It’s made by groups and coalitions of very diverse kinds of people, usually working in some kind of silo with like-minded people but standing together in a way that their work resonates with each other."
Sarah Schulman, author of LET THE RECORD SHOW, talks about ACT UP, AIDS history, and media representations at Electric Literature.
Sarah Schulman, author of "Let the Record Show," on the history of ACT UP New York
We're nearing the end of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, but here's a list of 22 new mystery books by AAPI authors to keep you on the edge of your seats for a while to come 🕵️📚
In honor of Asian-American and Pacific Islander heritage month, we’re highlighting the incredible array of crime books and thrillers by Asian-American authors publishing in 2021, so you can k…
"History would be very dull if we weren’t always trying to change how it was done. It’s our conversation with the dead, and we practice a kind of ventriloquism in order to hear from the other side."
An interview with historian Mary Beard, author of SPQR and WOMEN & POWER, on changing canons, feminist translations, and the internet at The New Yorker.
For Beard, change has always been a part of classics: we need to expose the field’s flaws to understand how we’ve inherited them.
Major congrats to FP authors, Juli Delgado Lopera (FIEBRE TROPICAL) and Melissa Valentine (THE NAMES OF ALL THE FLOWERS) for being 2021 Firecracker Awards finalists! ✨ via CLMP
May 10th, 2021 CLMP Announces the 2021 Firecracker Awards Finalists May 10, 2021 (New York, NY)—The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), the national nonprofit organization that for more than 50 years has supported the work of independent literary publishers, has announced the final...
“Preventing children from reading my book, or any book, won’t protect them. On the contrary, it may rob them of ways to understand the world they’ll encounter, or even the lives they’re already living.”
Author Carmen Marie Machado on censorship, domestic violence, and how banning books does more harm than good. via The New York Times
My memoir could teach teenagers how to exit an abusive relationship. So why don't some parents want their children to read it?
Not all families are perfect. Check out this list of books that feature dysfunctional families. via Electric Literature
It’s our families of origin that usually know us best. After all, we share decades of history that accommodate a hundred minor, and sometimes major, offenses. We have plenty of chances to observe each other, to know exactly where the other person’s weak spot resides, to know how to manipulate th...
For Asian/Pacific American Heritage month we’re enjoying these books by AAPI authors—including FP titles, TASTES LIKE WAR, A WORLD BETWEEN, and GO HOME! via CLMP
For Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, observed annually during the month of May, we asked our members—independent presses, literary journals, and others—to share with us some of the literature by Asian American and Pacific Islander American writers they recommend reading in celebration. (Le...
With spring comes rain—and more books to add to your TBR pile! Check out Ms. Magazine’s May 2021 reads including our own TASTES LIKE WAR, which comes out next week!
Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.
"But while more writers of color have been rewarded, this increasingly capacious literary culture is also becoming more exclusionary, more tied to elite educational institutions, and more difficult to enter. These obstacles are most salient for writers who are not white, a troubling contradiction in what otherwise appears to be a moment of watershed inclusion."
An incisive article from Public Books that unpacks book publishing's claims to diversity with impressive research.
Despite welcome diversification, literary culture is also becoming more tied to elite educational institutions, and more difficult to enter.
Happy Mother's Day! To celebrate, we're sharing this Book Riot list of feminist children's books to read with young ones or gift to parents.
A reader shares the feminist children's books she hopes to read to her future child when the time comes. Add these to your TBR!
"When Angela had finished reading, the journalist and broadcaster Arthur Marshall bluntly told her that “on the whole, I don’t really like stories of fantasy . . . I like stories that begin: 'Mrs Henderson walked slowly into Sainsbury’s and purchased a pound of cod.' Angela cocked her head amusedly: 'I’d like to know the Sainsbury’s where you can buy cod. You fantasist.'"
A very happy birthday to perennial icon Angela Carter!
During the time that Angela Carter taught at the University of East Anglia, her reputation underwent a series of small transformations. The first of these came with the publication of The Sadeian W…
For still more books to add to your stacks for this summer, we're sharing an essential list of books by Vietnamese Americans from Electric Literature! 📚
Eric Nguyen recommends literature that resists any neat idea of a singular Vietnamese diaspora narrative
We're so excited to add these six books on the Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist to our summer reading lists ☀️
Susanna Clarke, Yaa Gyasi and Patricia Lockwood among the six authors up for the £30,000 award
From memoirs about facing racial and body stereotypes to novels about achieving one's dreams in the male-dominated sports world, here's a BuzzFeed Books list of 12 books that center women athletes.
You might say these books ~hit it out of the park~.
Take this @Autostraddle quiz to find out what you'd be if you were a cover of a "classic" lesbian pulp novel—and maybe get a new reading rec too!
Find out what mid-20th century gay stereotype you'd be!
Amy Tan will always be an icon. In this Bustle interview, she speaks about the critiques against THE JOY LUCK CLUB back in the day, her time as lead singer for an all-author band, what she's currently reading, and more.
Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir, which premieres on May 3 as part of PBS’ “American Masters” series, is a linear and intimate portrait of the author’s life.
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Trina Greene Brown and Dani McClain in conversation
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!
We’re live with TENEMENTAL author Vikki Warner! Join us!
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!
We’re live with THOUGH I GET HOME author YZ Chin! Join us!
“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
GO HOME!’s Rowan Hisayo Buchanan talks with Jisu Kim. Join us!
A huge thank you to everyone who helped raise money for the Feminist Press yesterday - Lucia Brown, Sophia Magnone, Sophia Lauriello, Teal Christensen, and Ariel Gore - and an even bigger thank you to everyone who donated!
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! 👻
Don't forget to join us tomorrow at Books Of Wonder for Anastasia Higginbotham's book launch for DIVORCE IS THE WORST! click to learn more: http://bit.ly/1wE3CeJ
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