“Domestic violence is the entrée into the world in which men’s violence controls women’s movement and bodies and lives.” – Rachel Louise Snyder Rachel Louise Snyder is an American journalist, writer, and professor. She is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and regular contributor to The New Yorker covering domestic violence, and her work has appeared in …
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“In a big way, Lobizona is a treatise on labels. It’s about having access two languages but still lacking the language to define yourself. It’s about coming from two worlds but belonging to neither.” – Romina Garber Romina Garber is a New York Times and international bestselling author whose books include Lobizona & the ZODIAC …
An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Listen to this podcast using the player above! Mentioned in this episode: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Genres: Horror, historical fiction Read if you like: mushrooms, The Shining by Stephen King, the amount of body horror on Santa Clarita Diet (TV show) Also of note: This …
“A lot of times women’s stories are automatically tagged as chick lit. But if you read the same kind of story about a man, it would be heralded as literature. There’s not really men’s fiction or dude lit.” – Laura Hankin Laura Hankin has written for McSweeney’s and HuffPost, among other publications. The viral videos …
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“My identity is constantly evolving and shifting in part because the way that gender is structured in our society is fundamentally flawed. All of us to an extent are trying to navigate through that flawed system.” – Meredith Talusan Meredith Talusan is an award-winning author and journalist who is the founding executive editor of them., …
“I spent much of my time in the lingerie department quietly grieving. I was so raw. And when my customers were raw with me, this was humanity in its most beautiful and intimate form.” – Natalee Woods Natalee Woods is the author of the recent release Full Support: Lessons Learned in the Dressing Room (Chicago …
“My books are all romance novels, they’re about falling in love, but I want that to be a story about two equals coming together rather than a woman being saved by a relationship.” – Jasmine Guillory Jasmine Guillory is the New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Date, The Proposal, The Wedding Party, Royal Holiday, and Party of Two. …
“My goal for this world was to bring together the western medieval-style fantasies I loved growing up with bits of my own cultural influences. Growing up, I didn’t think that characters that looked like me could have the happy ending.” – Lori M. Lee Lori M. Lee was born in the mountains of Laos, but …
An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Listen to this podcast using the player above! Mentioned in this episode: Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West Genres: Contemporary fiction Read if you like: multigenerational family sagas, complicated Black father-daughter relationships, unconditional female friendships Also of note: Tune into our interview with …
“Anything worth studying and aligning yourself with is going to be complicated and, hopefully, evolving all the time as culture and language evolve.” – Amanda Montell Amanda Montell is a writer, linguist, and author of the critically acclaimed book Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language, published by HarperCollins in 2019 and …
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