Today’s episode features two seemingly disparate segments with a lot in common. Alternate titles included Wisdom from the Windy City, Voices of Chicago Youth and Elders, Notes on Compassion, or something about absurdism and groundedness. Mariquita, Rah, and Renee discuss the new book Kittentits by Holly Wilson, then Ashley interviews Chaz Ebert about her book […]
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In Jaclyn Goldis’ divinely written novel out May 21, The Main Character, the reader is on more twists and turns than a luxury train ride, which is part of the story’s setting. Ginevra Ex is a bestselling novelist who for her latest plot brings her main character, Rory Aronov, onto a lavish Italian getaway. When
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We love to celebrate women who defy gender roles and today we’re celebrating two groups of fascinating women in this podcast — women athletes and child-free women.
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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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Here at FBC, we wanna diversify your bookshelf in all sorts of ways and we’re here to remind you that reading Black stories doesn’t just mean reading literary fiction about pain or suffering. Genre fiction, or popular fiction that falls into certain predictable categories, is full of incredible Black women writing at the tops of their games. In this episode, we recommend two in particular, one romance author and one thriller author.
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This post was sponsored by Books Forward and may also include affiliate links which means we make a small commission on any sales. All opinions are my own. Partnerships like these help us to pay our staff and to keep feminist media independent! Moral Code is an ambitious science fiction novel that contends with the
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We’re big fans of getting uncomfortable with your reading life, whether that be reading about a topic that has been misunderstood for most of history or reading translated literature in a whole new format. In this episode, our contributors share two ways to get a little outside your comfort zone when it comes to reading.
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Today’s episode is all about feeling a part of something, whether that’s a family lineage or a community of gamers. We all want to feel like we belong to something more, and our contributors today take that feeling in two totally different (but somehow complementary?) directions.
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In this double feature, we’re sharing a moving author interview as well as a review of an important non-fiction book.
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Tayler (she/her) sits down with Shayla Lawson (they/them), author of the new book How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir. Tune in as Shayla talks about Blackness as nonbinary, shares an argument for lowercasing the b in Black, and so much more on the African Diaspora. Get a copy of How
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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! A League of Extraordinary Women begins with Annabelle’s story in Bringing Down the Duke. I had first picked up this book at the
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This post was sponsored by Storey Publishing. All opinions are my own. Our sponsors help us to pay our staff and to keep feminist media independent! Storey Publishing publishes thoughtful and heartfelt non-fiction books that are absolutely perfect for this time of year. In this time of gratitude and reflection, I can think of no better
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