Sam is a writer based in Brooklyn. An ex-bicycle messenger and a marathoner, she is a lover of adventure. She is an avid reader of literary fiction and nonfiction in all forms–but has a special love for the weird and the dystopian.
Alternative Realities of Grief; the covers of Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino; Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley, and Death Valley by Melissa Broder superimposed on tombstones.
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Grief’s Alternative Realities: Books Where Loss Shapes the World

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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cover of Young and Restless
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Book Review: Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America’s Revolutions

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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A selection of covers of books that might be defined as solarpunk
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Solarpunk: An Introduction

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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books about bibliophiles
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Books about Bibliophiles

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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A crib with stuffed animals, reimagining family
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Reimagining Family

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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book covers of HarperCollins recent releases you might have missed
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While they Were Striking: HarperCollins Recent Releases You Might Have Missed

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! From November 10, 2022 through February 9, 2023, the almost 250 members of the HarperCollins union were on strike. Union members, comprised of

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Covers of five new poetry books
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Five New (and Recent) Poetry Books to Read in Honor of National Poetry Month

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! In honor of National Poetry Month, FBC’s book of the month is Rose Quartz. If it leaves you inspired to keep reading, I’ve

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