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    In Conversation with Lynn Steger Strong
    Mel Ann Rosenthal
    • Aug 20, 2020
    • 10 min

    In Conversation with Lynn Steger Strong

    From October 2018 through September 2019, I was lucky enough to be taught by Lynn in Catapult’s Novel Generator class. It was a year-long...
    Want by Lynn Steger Strong
    Mel Ann Rosenthal
    • Aug 19, 2020
    • 8 min

    Want by Lynn Steger Strong

    If anyone, your closest friend, your mom, even a stranger, anyone, came up to you right now and asked you what you wanted more than anyth...
    White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women Of Color By Ruby Hamad
    Maggie Briana Chidester
    • Aug 18, 2020
    • 11 min

    White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women Of Color By Ruby Hamad

    MAJOR TRIGGER WARNINGS THROUGHOUT THIS REVIEW: Racism, rape/sexual assault, domestic violence, colonization, exoticization, etc. You know...
    So, you liked... THE IDIOT by Elif Batuman
    Victoria Storm
    • Aug 17, 2020
    • 3 min

    So, you liked... THE IDIOT by Elif Batuman

    *Introducing* The Book Slut’s newest column, where we recommend books to you in what I believe is the most reliable and efficient way pos...
    Friday Book Debrief Vol 36
    Admin
    • Aug 14, 2020
    • 3 min

    Friday Book Debrief Vol 36

    Sam George-Allen, Lynn Steger Strong, Heike Geissler, Sabaa Tahir, Lewis Carroll, Donna Tartt, Maria Hinojosa, Jamel Brinkley & more.
    The Sober Lush by Amanda Eyre Ward and Jardine Libaire
    Jessica Maria
    • Aug 14, 2020
    • 6 min

    The Sober Lush by Amanda Eyre Ward and Jardine Libaire

    Amanda Eyre Ward and Jardine Libaire, the charming authors of Sober Lush, would do no such thing as tell you what to do.
    The Inugami Curse By Seishi Yokomizo, Translated from the Japanese by Yumiko Yamakazi
    Seonaid Murray
    • Aug 12, 2020
    • 4 min

    The Inugami Curse By Seishi Yokomizo, Translated from the Japanese by Yumiko Yamakazi

    Although, I am a big fan of true crime and murder mystery TV (Murder She Wrote, Quincy, Jonathan Creek, all that 90s jazz) I have never b...
    Daughters of Night by Laura Sheperd-Robinson
    Aleesha Koersen
    • Aug 11, 2020
    • 5 min

    Daughters of Night by Laura Sheperd-Robinson

    Daughters of Night, the second novel by Laura Sheperd-Robinson, starts with a murder and develops into a dynamic and thrilling story of d...
    The Invention of Love by Sara Schaff
    Elaine Mead
    • Aug 10, 2020
    • 5 min

    The Invention of Love by Sara Schaff

    Ahhh, love. We all want it. We all become better for it. We have all (probably) suffered for it. Our ideas of love are complex, interchan...
    Friday Book Debrief Vol 35
    Admin
    • Aug 7, 2020
    • 3 min

    Friday Book Debrief Vol 35

    Every week we’re sharing what our some of our writers are currently reading. For all of our US readers, we now have our own Bookshop! You...
    TENDER IS THE FLESH BY AUGUSTINA BAZTERRICA
    Courtney Dyer
    • Aug 6, 2020
    • 5 min

    TENDER IS THE FLESH BY AUGUSTINA BAZTERRICA

    Tender Is The Flesh gives us our society reimagined where instead of animals, humans are factory farmed for consumption. Animals are now ...
    Mouthful Of Birds by Samanta Schweblin
    Elaine Mead
    • Aug 5, 2020
    • 4 min

    Mouthful Of Birds by Samanta Schweblin

    Schweblin’s first book, Fever Dream, had me, well, feverish when I first read it a couple of years back. It sits unabashedly as one of my...
    Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris
    Marian Perales
    • Aug 3, 2020
    • 4 min

    Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris

    Social justice advocate Monique W. Morris has written a phenomenal book, Pushout, which examines the criminalization of Black girls in pu...
    Friday Book Debrief Vol 34
    Admin
    • Jul 31, 2020
    • 2 min

    Friday Book Debrief Vol 34

    This week; Wendy Liu, Alexis Daria, Tom Perrotta, Dulce Maria Cardoso & Bryan Washington
    True Story by Kate Reed Petty
    Jessica Riches
    • Jul 30, 2020
    • 4 min

    True Story by Kate Reed Petty

    It’s not every day that I read a book and then, less than a few pages in, put it down to Google who has the film rights. This isn’t simpl...
    The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
    Lucy Wadelton
    • Jul 29, 2020
    • 4 min

    The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

    Taylor Jenkins Reid is best known for her most recent novel, Daisy Jones and the Six, which has collected a string of impressive accolade...
    Incendiary by Zoraida Córdova
    Courtney Dyer
    • Jul 28, 2020
    • 5 min

    Incendiary by Zoraida Córdova

    As a Robari, a memory thief, Renata is the most powerful strain of Moria magic. She was only a child when she was kidnapped and used as a...
    Jillian by Halle Butler
    Jessica Riches
    • Jul 27, 2020
    • 4 min

    Jillian by Halle Butler

    At first I thought I didn’t have very much to say about this book, which is a problem when I’m meant to be reviewing it. It’s just about ...
    Friday Book Debrief Vol 33
    Admin
    • Jul 24, 2020
    • 3 min

    Friday Book Debrief Vol 33

    Every week we’re sharing what our some of our writers are currently reading. For all of our US readers, we now have our own Bookshop! You...
    The Gray Morality of Books
    Cecilia Beard
    • Jul 23, 2020
    • 5 min

    The Gray Morality of Books

    While reading, I now think about where a book stands morally. This is a new phenomenon for me. Previously, I'd inhale a book, think about...
    Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom
    Marian Perales
    • Jul 22, 2020
    • 4 min

    Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom

    Public intellectual, sociologist, and National Book Award finalist Tressie McMillan Cottom has written a superb book Thick and Other Essa...
    Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
    Jessica Riches
    • Jul 21, 2020
    • 5 min

    Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

    Moshfegh has perfected what she does, and the curse of becoming a novelist people revere is that they think they understand you.
    Cecilia's Favorite books of 2020 So Far
    Cecilia Beard
    • Jul 20, 2020
    • 2 min

    Cecilia's Favorite books of 2020 So Far

    While 2020 has brought its challenges, it has also brought me the best reading year I’ve had in a long time. Like you, I’ve been inside f...
    Friday Book Debrief Vol 32
    Admin
    • Jul 17, 2020
    • 4 min

    Friday Book Debrief Vol 32

    Jacob Tobia, Hanya Yanagihara, Jennifer Weiner, Emily St. John Mandel, Hernán Diaz, Hilary Mantel, Tomi Adeyemi, Bethany C. Morrow & more.
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