In honor of Women’s History Month, each March, the librarians of the New York Public Library present a month-long series of blog posts highlighting the amazing women they’ve discovered through the print and online resources of NYPL. They have reading lists that include topics such as “Women, Creativity & Madness”, interviews with Riot Grrls, discussions [...]
Category Archives: Fiction
So Little Time
February 9, 2011 – 1:08 pm
If you are looking for something to read The Millions did a Most Anticipated Great Books of 2011 list that makes me get really excited for all the goodies I am going to load on my new kindle. Yes, I bought a kindle. If you have been to my house and seen all the books [...]
Sheena is a Punk Rocker
February 3, 2011 – 10:23 am
When I heard that Rooney Mara was to play Lisbeth Salander, the charming bad-ass from Steig Larsson’s best selling book The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, I was confused. Had the casting director read the books or seen the Swedish films? Lisbeth Salander is hardcore. Whereas Rooney Mara is most well-known for being from a [...]
Emma Straub
February 1, 2011 – 11:03 am
It’s hard to find things to say about Emma Straub that haven’t already been said this week, as she’s gotten a ton of press for her short story collection Other People We Married, the first title from small press Five Chapters, but I’m going to try anyway. Here’s my two cents: Emma is the literary [...]
Behind The Dream
January 18, 2011 – 9:29 am
I just heard this interview with attorney Clarence Jones discussing his new book Behind The Dream about helping draft the speech that would become I Have A Dream. I know MLK day was yesterday, but I’m celebrating him all week. Photo by Richard Avedon of MLK with his father and son in Atlanta, Georgia.
Renee Gladman
December 22, 2010 – 4:28 pm
Event Factory, by Renee Gladman, is a devious little science fiction book about a woman who visits a fictional city called “Ravicka”—which may also be a planet—where only commonplace banalities occur and everyone is uncomfortable and mystified. It’s a reticent gem of poise and subtle humor, and, at only 126 pages, it punches—or, more accurately, [...]
