the book slut

Exploring Female Interiority in Bizet’s Carmen through Roxane Gay and Carmen Maria Machado

Books to Help You Put the CARES Act in the Context of Undocumented Immigrants In late March, the federal government announced passage of...

If you’re at all like me, Shonda Rhimes has permanently imprinted many of her TV characters on your brain. And, if you’re a diehard fan...

Welcome to the first roundtable between The Book Slut writers. Think of this as a book club meeting, recorded. Except in these times we...

A few weeks ago I was eating dinner with a large group of friends and acquaintances, and the woman next to me asked what I was currently...

“Who would be interested in a story about a woman like me? It’s so typical.”

It all started in 2019. I was completing NaNoWriMo last November - quite unsuccessfully might I add - and didn’t want to give myself a...

In the last two months of 2019 I came up with some fun hashtags (#nomennovember & #dickindecember), where I essentially challenged myself...