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Celebrate AAPI authors year-round!
12/24/2022

Celebrate AAPI authors year-round!

These books were published within the last year and explore Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences in the United States.

Our futures are worth fighting for.
12/23/2022

Our futures are worth fighting for.

Hope may seem to be in short supply these days, but these stories dare to chart a course toward something better.

"The world we live in considers women over 30 “old,” particularly in Hollywood, unless they’re playing high schoolers (y...
12/23/2022

"The world we live in considers women over 30 “old,” particularly in Hollywood, unless they’re playing high schoolers (yuck). And women over 50? Forget it. For years, they’ve been relegated to playing crones and ancient aunts, both in books and in movies." -Tika Viteri

From assassin thrillers to holiday romances, these books about women over 50 show life doesn't end at middle age — it might just start there.

For those of us with cabin fever:
12/22/2022

For those of us with cabin fever:

How the pandemic made us confront what it means to be alone.

What's your native tongue?
12/21/2022

What's your native tongue?

Powerful reads on which language comes first, second, or even third.

"The material we deliberately preserve provides insight into what we value, and what we expect to value in an unknowable...
12/21/2022

"The material we deliberately preserve provides insight into what we value, and what we expect to value in an unknowable future. This raises the question: Why do we keep what we keep? Who decides? And, how does what we keep affect what we collectively remember in practice? If what we collect determines what we remember, we have to be mindful about what we’re willing to lose." - Hallel Yadin

Why do we keep what we keep — and who decides? An archivist digs and collects longreads on how objects and materials shape public memory.

A list of fiction and nonfiction that investigate nuance in spirituality.
12/20/2022

A list of fiction and nonfiction that investigate nuance in spirituality.

Michelle Webster-Hein, author of "Out of Esau," recommends fiction and non-fiction that interrogate spirituality with nuance

Especially as the weather gets colder, here's a reminder:
12/19/2022

Especially as the weather gets colder, here's a reminder:

The opposite of hopelessness is action. These books will help inspire and reassure you that, together, we can work to make the world better.

"Not all rebellions are explosive. Some are quietly performed in the corners of kitchens, some burn deep in a heart unab...
12/19/2022

"Not all rebellions are explosive. Some are quietly performed in the corners of kitchens, some burn deep in a heart unable to express it in the outside world." -- Rijula Das

Rijula Das, author of "Small Deaths, recommends stories about South Asian women who refuse a conventional life

24 hours is a lot of time for things to happen!
12/18/2022

24 hours is a lot of time for things to happen!

A lot can unfold over 24 hours

Thrilled to see Luke Dani Blue’s PRETEND IT’S MY BODY included in this Best of 2022 round up!
12/18/2022

Thrilled to see Luke Dani Blue’s PRETEND IT’S MY BODY included in this Best of 2022 round up!

Fiction editor Laurie Muchnick introduces our list of the top 100 fiction books of the year.

We love a film adaptation!
12/17/2022

We love a film adaptation!

The Fall of Tess Gunty (I speak of Autumn, not ruination) continues apace with news that the Indiana author’s much-ballyhooed debut novel The Rabbit Hutch—the story of a group of residents of…

Have you read THE AGE OF GOODBYES yet? Check out this excerpt of Li Zi Shu's award-winning novel on LitHub.
12/16/2022

Have you read THE AGE OF GOODBYES yet? Check out this excerpt of Li Zi Shu's award-winning novel on LitHub.

You’re reading this book, which is a novel. The author brings up “writing such a magnum opus” in the afterword. “Magnum opus” is a word choice worth scrutinizing, since you’ve rarely seen any novel…

Sapphic literature year round, please.
12/15/2022

Sapphic literature year round, please.

From ‘I Kissed Shara Wheeler’ to ‘Honey Girl,’ sapphic books are more popular than ever.

Wondering what to get the book lovers in your life for the holidays? Check out this curated gift guide from our friends ...
12/14/2022

Wondering what to get the book lovers in your life for the holidays? Check out this curated gift guide from our friends at Loyalty Bookstore!

The Loyalty Booksellers have put together a selection of our favorite 2022 books for the holidays! There's something here for all the book lovers in your life (and yes, that can totally include you ). Check out our picks in every genre for every age, as well as Loyalty's special option...

BRB, we’re preordering. Already thinking about all the new books we’re going to read in 2023!
12/13/2022

BRB, we’re preordering. Already thinking about all the new books we’re going to read in 2023!

30 Indie Books to Look Out for in Early 2023 is a literary listicle compiled by IBR founder Joe Walters, including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from small to mid-sized publishers like Mason Jar Press, Two Dollar Radio, and more.

If you love free book events, you’ll love this event guide. Make sure to check out translators Emma Ramadan and Olivia B...
12/12/2022

If you love free book events, you’ll love this event guide. Make sure to check out translators Emma Ramadan and Olivia Baes discuss Marguerite Duras’ The Easy Life.

Winter is coming, and we are not leaving our homes (but still want to attend book events)! * The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit-Feminist Led Celebration & Discussion December 1 @ 7:30pm EST To celebr…

We love a pretty cover 😍
12/11/2022

We love a pretty cover 😍

Another month of books, another month of book covers. In this dark and darkening month, we need some nice things to look at—here are some of my favorites: A brilliant idea and ex*****on for this fi…

Book recs for our fellow Swifties!
12/10/2022

Book recs for our fellow Swifties!

The singer/songwriter is going on tour to celebrate her different eras and we have a reading list to match

Hard to believe 2022 is coming to an end! What were some of your favorite books of the year?
12/09/2022

Hard to believe 2022 is coming to an end! What were some of your favorite books of the year?

Our expert librarians selected the year's best books for kids, teens, and adults. Check out these outstanding titles.

https://lithub.com/the-problem-with-calling-nature-wild/ A study of the word “Wild” for the etymology nerds out there
12/08/2022

https://lithub.com/the-problem-with-calling-nature-wild/

A study of the word “Wild” for the etymology nerds out there

“Wild” is a challenging word. “Wild” is used to describe a misbehaving child, a kick-ass party, a city with traffic congestion problems, a piece of salmon that hasn’t been designed in a chemical la…

https://lithub.com/writers-wrestle-with-twitter-do-i-stay-or-go-and-where/ Twitter was (is? still?) a social hub where e...
12/05/2022

https://lithub.com/writers-wrestle-with-twitter-do-i-stay-or-go-and-where/

Twitter was (is? still?) a social hub where emerging writers could pitch and promote their work to a vast audience, for free. Now that Twitter is in limbo, what happens to the writers?

After Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter became official on October 27, Margaret Atwood tweeted, “Any truly viable alternatives to Twitter yet?” Atwood wasn’t the only writer looking for the next lite…

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/23/1137562257/love-and-rockets-comics ‘Love and Rockets’ has it all. This Latinx, indie, L.A...
12/04/2022

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/23/1137562257/love-and-rockets-comics

‘Love and Rockets’ has it all. This Latinx, indie, L.A. 80’s (and beyond!), sci-fi punk comic has been going strong for 40 years and counting!

‘Love and Rockets’ where have you been all my life?

Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez have been drawing and writing their comic book series Love and Rockets since 1982.

https://lithub.com/sofia-coppola-in-praise-of-edith-whartons-beloved-antiheroine-undine-spragg/Sofia Coppola discusses t...
12/03/2022

https://lithub.com/sofia-coppola-in-praise-of-edith-whartons-beloved-antiheroine-undine-spragg/

Sofia Coppola discusses the characterization of Undine Spragg, in preparation for her upcoming adaptation.
“I loved spending all this time with Edith Wharton in her world, and hearing her sly, perfectly described observations. Wharton can really skewer someone so elegantly.”

Until I read The Custom of the Country, I had never met a literary character quite like Undine Spragg, nor encountered such an in-depth portrait of a classic antiheroine. Yet, we’ve all met women l…

https://lithub.com/what-if-listicles-are-actually-an-ancient-form-of-writing-and-narrative/“As Foucault says: “there is ...
12/01/2022

https://lithub.com/what-if-listicles-are-actually-an-ancient-form-of-writing-and-narrative/

“As Foucault says: “there is nothing more tentative, nothing more empirical (superficially, at least) than the process of establishing an order among things; nothing that demands a sharper eye or a surer, better-articulated language.”

Measurement was a crucial organizing principle in ancient Egypt, but metrology itself does not begin with nilometers. To understand its place in human culture, we have to trace its roots back furth…

How do we begin to break free from the unwanted cycles that took our ancestors?
11/26/2022

How do we begin to break free from the unwanted cycles that took our ancestors?

Juliet Patterson, author of "Sinkhole," recommends books that use ancestry as a lens to ask bigger questions about the world

“War operates like a disease. Only those who have personally experienced it know its toll.” – Faleeha Hassan
11/23/2022

“War operates like a disease. Only those who have personally experienced it know its toll.” – Faleeha Hassan

Faleeha Hassan, author of "War and Me," recommends writers brave enough to confront the realities of violent conflict

Are you one of millions of Americans living on the edge of medical knowledge – with poorly understood and often misdiagn...
11/22/2022

Are you one of millions of Americans living on the edge of medical knowledge – with poorly understood and often misdiagnosed conditions, often involving dysregulation of the immune and/or nervous system?

The "Invisible Kingdom" author Meghan O’Rourke on the silent epidemic of chronic illness

Because women have left their mark just about everywhere in history.
11/21/2022

Because women have left their mark just about everywhere in history.

E.M. Tran, author of "Daughters of the New Year," recommends stories about family history passed down from mother to daughter

“As an Arab American woman, I can tell you that most Western portrayals of the Middle East in pop culture aren’t great. ...
11/20/2022

“As an Arab American woman, I can tell you that most Western portrayals of the Middle East in pop culture aren’t great. There’s a lot of war and terrorism. In movies, cities like Cairo and Beirut have that weird orange filter that makes everything look hot and polluted. And don’t get me started on the women. Why are we either a belly dancer or Princess Jasmine?” – Malaka Gharib, author of It Won’t Always Be Like This, and I Was Their American Dream

Malaka Gharib, author of "It Won’t Always Be Like This," recommends stories that illustrate the diversity of the MENA region and diaspora

We all seek to belong.
11/20/2022

We all seek to belong.

Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi recommends books about the struggles of adapting to a new country

“Kinship ties form the backbone of Philippine society, and the way we relate to others and to ourselves is inextricably ...
11/19/2022

“Kinship ties form the backbone of Philippine society, and the way we relate to others and to ourselves is inextricably linked to the tightness of our family bonds. For many, these bonds can also be a source of pain, since they don’t necessarily foster understanding, tolerance, or even care. The complicated nature of Filipino family bonds has been a topic of interest, even of obsession, for many Filipino writers both at home and in the diaspora.” – Monica Macansantos, author of Love and Other Rituals

Monica Macansantos, author of "Love and Other Rituals," recommends stories about the ties of kinship

What magic have you unearthed lately?
11/19/2022

What magic have you unearthed lately?

Real magical stories to show us, individually and collectively, different ways to create a new world

Be free!
11/18/2022

Be free!

Mia Mercado wants you to fly free and spread your nasty little wings

Have you read Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s The Future is Disabled? The author discusses disabled futurism and the ...
11/18/2022

Have you read Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s The Future is Disabled? The author discusses disabled futurism and the relationship between queerness and disability justice in this illuminating interview.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s ‘The Future Is Disabled’ imagines a world built for all.

It’s still Halloween to me! R.L Stine talks Goosebumps conception, beating parental bans, and other works.
11/17/2022

It’s still Halloween to me! R.L Stine talks Goosebumps conception, beating parental bans, and other works.

R.L. Stine's mega-popular series has spawned TV shows, movies and many, many books. A humor writer who stumbled into horror, Stine says its been a thrill to scare so many generations of kids.

This book list is a great resource for children’s books by Native American authors.
11/17/2022

This book list is a great resource for children’s books by Native American authors.

These gorgeously illustrated kids' books do everything from correcting misinformation to teaching cultural traditions.

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Join us on Tuesday, April 5th from 6:30-8 PM EDT on Zoom for our first BOOK SALON of the year with Jessie Daniels on 𝘕𝘐𝘊𝘌 𝘞𝘏𝘐𝘛𝘌 𝘓𝘈𝘋𝘐𝘌𝘚: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺, 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘙𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘞𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘐𝘵. Dr. Daniels will be in conversation with Alyssa Bowen and Carla Shedd.

In Jessie Daniels' new book 𝘕𝘐𝘊𝘌 𝘞𝘏𝘐𝘛𝘌 𝘓𝘈𝘋𝘐𝘌𝘚: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺, 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘙𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘞𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘐𝘵 (Seal Press; October 12th), Daniels connects the recent historical research documenting the cruelty of white women slave owners in the antebellum South to those behind the effort to establish monuments to the Confederacy, to the majority of white women who consistently vote “against their own interests” and for the GOP. But the damage that nice white ladies do is not easily cordoned off as an issue on the right. There is, this book suggests, a kind of narcissism and sadomasochism at the heart of whiteness. Daniels closes the book with a roadmap for other white women with practical steps for how to affect much-needed change. Ultimately, 𝘕𝘐𝘊𝘌 𝘞𝘏𝘐𝘛𝘌 𝘓𝘈𝘋𝘐𝘌𝘚, shows how white women can be more than allies—they can be trusted accomplices in a shared mission of liberation for us all.

To Register: https://bit.ly/CSWSJessieDaniels2022 or visit our Facebook Events Page.

Many thanks to our co-sponsors:
PhD Program in Sociology at The Graduate Center, CUNY The Center for the Humanities The Feminist Press

PublicsLab at the CUNY Graduate Center
Brava to McNaughton & Gunn client The Feminist Press!
BOOTLEG [novelette] http://amzn.to/1jh5IEN
author: Helen Dunn

Bullets, Booze & Love/Lesbian Historical Fiction/Action & Romance

Independent, tough, young mountain woman, Bailey Skinner, a bootlegger, is falling for pretty widow, Minnie Givens, who doesn't approve of "the devil's brew".

Bailey, her pit bull named Moonshine and her partner, Little Jack - who may be small in size but big in courage - are also dealing with a crooked Sheriff, and shoot-outs with rival bootleggers.

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The URL given is for Amazon USA, but this book and all my books are available in other countries where Amazon is on-line.

To see all my books and covers please visit my author's page at amazon. Blurbs & excerpts are at the screen for each individual book: http://amzn.to/1jh5IEN

If you get this book and enjoy it, please leave a review at Amazon. It will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Today's goes out to a woman dubbed "the Mother of Women's Studies," Florence Howe. Florence began teaching Women's Studies in the 1950's before it was even a major or given a proper name, and she found that there weren't nearly enough literary materials to help teach the class. She decided the way to overcome this hurdle was by founding a publishing house herself that could be dedicated to amplifying the voices of unheard women. This publishing house was named The Feminist Press and today, fifty years later, it is the longest surviving women’s publishing house in the world.
Join us on Wednesday, March 23rd from 6:30-7:45 PM EDT on Zoom for a talk with Rupal Oza on "Ties to Land: Sexual Violation and Political Economy in Rural India."

What is the relationship between sexual violation and private property? In this talk, Rupal Oza will follow how the social life of r**e in rural Haryana is navigated through differential caste and community access to land. Beyond direct causal connections between land disputes and sexual assault, land anchors social relationships in Haryana. Oza's effort to recount these stories of dispute and violence illustrates what Rana Jaleel (2021) has called “r**e’s intimacies with property [which are] roughly tethered to expropriations of resources, lives, and land." In these intimacies, caste relations braid together who has access to resources and land.

To Register: https://bit.ly/CSWSRupalOza2022 or visit our Facebook Events Page.

CUNY Graduate Center Anthropology Earth and Environmental Sciences Program,The Graduate Center, CUNY Political Science Program at The Graduate Center, CUNY The Center for the Humanities The Feminist Press
On the 🌍 International Episode 🌎 of our Fully Booked podcast, Anton Hur discusses his forthcoming translation of VIOLETS by Kyung-sook Shin (4/12) ◆ http://ow.ly/e0su50I71R6 The Feminist Press
Join us on Monday, March 14, 2022 at 4 PM EST on Zoom.

The Center for the Study of Women and Society and Women Writing Women's Lives present the Dorothy O. Helly Works-In-Progress Lecture, Sally Cook on "UNMATCHED: The Spectacular Life and Career of Little Mo Connolly, American Tennis Legend."

“Little Mo paved the way for all of us who came after her” - Billie Jean King

Sally Cook will present her work on her biography of teenage tennis sensation Maureen (Little Mo) Connolly, who achieved what no other female tennis player had by winning a calendar Grand Slam in 1953. Connolly won 50 consecutive singles matches and was the top-ranked U.S. player from 1951 through 1953, before a tragic horseback riding accident in 1954 ended the 20-year-old’s career.

To Register: https://bit.ly/WWWLSallyCook2022

Many thanks to our co-sponsors:
The Center for the Humanities The Feminist Press Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at The Graduate Center, CUNY CUNY-Graduate Center History Program Ph.D. Program in English, The Graduate Center, CUNY

The Leon Levy Center for Biography
Biography and Memoir MA Program at The Graduate Center, CUNY
New to our shelves, fresh fiction from The Feminist Press and Riverhead Books. You can find more info about these and other recent arrivals on our website (malvernbooks.com/new-books) or call us on 512-322-2097 for curbside pick up or to make an appointment to visit.
Featuring fantastic new arrivals from The Feminist Press and Godine! Read all about them on our website and then call us on 512-322-2097 for curbside pick up or to make an appointment to visit: malvernbooks.com/new-books.
College of Staten Island sociologist Grace Cho's "Tastes Like War" — a National Book Foundation Award finalist published by CUNY's The Feminist Press — is a wrenching memoir of her mother's journey as a Korean War bride who endured war, racism and schizophrenia.
We’re always eager to look through The Millions’ massive most anticipated list. This year’s iteration includes a whopping sixteen works in translation, including LINEA NIGRA by Jazmina Barrera Velázquez (translated by Christina MacSweeney) and AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS by Masatsugu Ono (translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter), both from Two Lines Press, as well as books from New Directions, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, The Feminist Press, Metropolitan Books, and more.
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