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    Sending Nudes Anthology from Guts Publishing
    Nicole Burke
    • Feb 18
    • 5 min

    Sending Nudes Anthology from Guts Publishing

    Sending Nudes, a collection of fiction and non-fiction stories and poetry, is the latest release from Guts Publishing, released January 1...
    Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
    Jessica Riches
    • Feb 17
    • 4 min

    Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler

    We’ve all read the story of the self-loathing millennial writer in New York who’s in a deep depression about the state of the world but u...
    Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen
    Mel Ann Rosenthal
    • Feb 16
    • 18 min

    Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen

    “It gradually became clear to me that I’d simply articulated what to that point had been largely unspeakable. We didn’t have a common voc...
    Books That Didn't Quite Meet the Hype
    Cecilia Beard
    • Feb 15
    • 4 min

    Books That Didn't Quite Meet the Hype

    You’ve heard about it again and again. Friends, colleagues, lovers – they all recommend the same title. Publishers, the New York Times, e...
    Our Most Anticipated Books of 2021
    Admin
    • Jan 15
    • 12 min

    Our Most Anticipated Books of 2021

    There are so many favorite authors releasing new works (Didion! Abdurraqib! Lahiri! ROONEY!) as well as intriguing debuts with curious plots
    Odd Woman Out by Melanie Chartoff
    Maggie Briana Chidester
    • Jan 14
    • 3 min

    Odd Woman Out by Melanie Chartoff

    There are many celebrity tell-alls out in the world, but this one is different.
    Ghosts by Dolly Alderton
    Courtney Dyer
    • Jan 13
    • 5 min

    Ghosts by Dolly Alderton

    Ghosts reminded me that, for lack of a better phrase, men ain’t shit.
    When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy
    Hannah Abban
    • Jan 12
    • 6 min

    When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy

    This story is a book about unbreakable resolve and the narrator’s fight to reclaim her identity in the face of devastating circumstances.
    Jessica's Best Books of 2020
    Jessica Riches
    • Jan 11
    • 10 min

    Jessica's Best Books of 2020

    This post is late. I’m sorry. But that’s because 2020 was a bit of a shit year for lots of reasons. And do you know what must have been r...
    Our Best Books of 2020
    Admin
    • Dec 31, 2020
    • 3 min

    Our Best Books of 2020

    The Book Slut contributors voted for their favorite releases of 2020...
    Jessica Maria's Best Books of 2020
    Jessica Maria
    • Dec 31, 2020
    • 16 min

    Jessica Maria's Best Books of 2020

    These books will remain special because they managed to keep my attention in a year of a pandemic...
    Courtney's Best Books of 2020
    Courtney Dyer
    • Dec 30, 2020
    • 6 min

    Courtney's Best Books of 2020

    I simply cannot put them in a numbered order as they all exist in my brain and heart with different and at times fluctuating levels of lo...
    Nikki’s Best Books of 2020
    Nikki Michaels
    • Dec 30, 2020
    • 4 min

    Nikki’s Best Books of 2020

    2020 might’ve been garbage, but at least the books I managed to read over the past 12 months weren’t. Here are my top 10 reads from this ...
    Mel's Best Books of 2020
    Mel Ann Rosenthal
    • Dec 29, 2020
    • 5 min

    Mel's Best Books of 2020

    In my reading life this year: I finally embraced revisiting my favorite genre of my youth: contemporary romance— and have gone out of my w...
    Karla's Best Books of 2020
    Karla Mendez
    • Dec 29, 2020
    • 5 min

    Karla's Best Books of 2020

    My list of favorite books from this year looks different from years past and shows the shift my taste has taken, both deliberately and ju...
    Melissa's Best Books of 2020
    Melissa Weirick
    • Dec 28, 2020
    • 6 min

    Melissa's Best Books of 2020

    2020 was a strange year for reading, at least in my case. Pre-lockdown, I was reading books like crazy—around two per week! Once we hit h...
    Maggie's Best Books of 2020
    Maggie Briana Chidester
    • Dec 28, 2020
    • 9 min

    Maggie's Best Books of 2020

    We are so lucky that we had our books to comfort us in a time of strain and tragedy...
    Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
    Maggie Briana Chidester
    • Dec 25, 2020
    • 4 min

    Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

    MILK FED. OH MY GOD. I LOVED THIS ABSOLUTELY CRAZY BOOK. This is one of my favorite books I have read this year. I almost DNF'd in the be...
    Loveless by Alice Oseman
    Courtney Dyer
    • Dec 24, 2020
    • 4 min

    Loveless by Alice Oseman

    Alice Oseman writes the type of books I one day hope to write. I can’t even be jealous because her work brings me so much comfort and I a...
    In Conversation with Sofia Akel and The Free Books Campaign
    Hannah Abban
    • Dec 23, 2020
    • 5 min

    In Conversation with Sofia Akel and The Free Books Campaign

    It has been a rough eight months in some shape or form for everybody. In the summer as the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement experienced ...
    FIVE NON-FICTION BOOKS THAT READ LIKE FICTION
    Cecilia Beard
    • Dec 22, 2020
    • 3 min

    FIVE NON-FICTION BOOKS THAT READ LIKE FICTION

    I once had a professor come up to me at a coffee shop, tap me on the shoulder, and ask when I was going to finally, finally give up readi...
    In Conversation with Alexander Chee
    Mel Ann Rosenthal
    • Dec 21, 2020
    • 14 min

    In Conversation with Alexander Chee

    In March, shortly after sharing a brief review on Instagram of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, I got an alert that Alexander Chee...
    How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
    Mel Ann Rosenthal
    • Dec 21, 2020
    • 12 min

    How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee

    I first encountered Alexander Chee’s writing in 2018 when I took an afternoon master class with Catapult’s writing program in Manhattan. ...
    Friday Book Debrief Vol 48
    Admin
    • Nov 7, 2020
    • 2 min

    Friday Book Debrief Vol 48

    This week; James Baldwin, Rachel Cusk, Kate Weinberg, Lindy West, Esmeralda Sanatiago, & Dorothy Allison.
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