Join Sam, Mariquita, and Ashley for a roundtable discussion on one of our favorite books of the year, Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe. They discuss the themes of motherhood, sex work, addiction and recovery, as well as the narrative perspective of Margo herself. Don’t let the heavy topics fool you – this book […]
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This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! I want to hear stories about the pleasure and the privilege of growing older. But all of my timelines are awash with negative
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This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! Elissa Strauss’s new book When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others is a moving mediation on the nature of care,
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This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! Loss stops us in our tracks. It can alter our perception of time, and interrupt or change the course of our lives. Grief’s
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This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! At the start of The Glow by Jessie Gaynor, Jane, a failed poetry student turned PR maven, is listless and lost. She is
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This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! Mattie Kahn begins Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America’s Revolutions by recalling a realization that she just hadn’t read about that
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Solarpunk 101 Solarpunk is a subgenre of science fiction that imagines the kind of world we might live in if we all were free enough to create it. Focusing on climate solutions, cooperation, and acceptance, this kind of imaginative work becomes increasingly important as surviving on a warming planet requires more and more sweeping changes
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I’ve been on the search for books about bibliophiles–booksellers and bookmakers and bookbinders and collectors. I’ve read so many books about writers–across time and space and genre. And this makes sense. We’ve all heard the adage, “write what you know.” And, increasingly, as autofiction has dominated literature, the focus of even many fiction writers’ works
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This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! Audiobook narrators have a lot of responsibility. It’s their job to make an author’s words come to life. They often lend their voices
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This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! As soon as I closed the cover of Greek Lessons by Han Kang, I opened it again. It is a short, quiet, sometimes
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This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! Mother’s Day comes with lots of talk and thought about mothers and motherhood — its joys and its sacrifices. It also comes, increasingly
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This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock is not a self help book, even if its name might lead you to believe
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