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Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
108: Tana French, author of The Searcher

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2020 37:57


“We are presented an awful lot of the time that there’s one experience of the world that counts and all the others are lesser and trivial. When you fight against that it is, even obliquely, a feminist move.” - Tana French Tana French is the author of eight books, including In the Woods, The Likeness, and The Witch Elm. Her novels have sold over three million copies and won numerous awards, including the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller, and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction. Her newest book The Searcher is out now. She lives in Dublin with her family. Connect with Tana on her website. Tana's book recommendation: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our November charity is Native Women's Wilderness. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our November book of the month is BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
107: What Renee Read in October 2020

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2020 24:57


An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Mentioned in this episode: The Searcher by Tana French Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey The Lady Upstairs by Halley Sutton You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper Written in Starlight by Isabel Ibañez Somewhere in the Unknown World by Kao Kalia Yang -- Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our November charity is Native Women's Wilderness. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose  

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
106: Rebecca Roanhorse, author of Black Sun

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2020 33:41


“What I’m always trying to do is make sure Indigenous people show up in narratives of the future.” - Rebecca Roanhorse Rebecca Roanhorse is the New York Times bestselling author of Trail of Lightning, Storm of Locusts, Star Wars: Resistance Reborn, and Race to the Sun. She has won the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards for her fiction, and was the recipient of the 2018 Astounding (formerly Campbell) Award for Best New Writer. Her latest book, Black Sun, is out now. She lives in New Mexico with her family. Connect with Rebecca on her website, Twitter, or Instagram. Rebecca's book recommendations:  anything that's won a Hugo Award, especially A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- Check out our Read. Resist. Vote. series featuring progressive woman candidates. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our November charity is Native Women's Wilderness. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our November book of the month is BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
105: Francina Simone, author of Smash It!

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2020 48:11


“An American experience isn’t just a white experience. But so much media shows that only white people have a basic American experience while people of color have struggled, and that’s not all it is.” - Francina Simone Francina Simone believes in one thing: authenticity. She writes YA stories full of humor and hard life lessons with sprinkles of truth that make us all feel understood. Her craft focuses on stories about girls throwing caution to the wind to discover exactly who they are and what it means to love. Francina is also known for her BookTube channel, where she discusses controversial topics in books. Her brand new novel SMASH IT! is out now from Inkyard Press. Connect with Francina on her website, YouTube, or Instagram. Francina's book recommendations:  Heirs of Fate by Amara Luciano Awkward, Brave, and Crush by Svetlana Chmakova   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- Check out our Read. Resist. Vote. series featuring progressive woman candidates. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our November charity is Native Women's Wilderness. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our November book of the month is BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
103: Kara Lee Corthron, author of Daughers of Jubilation

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2020 35:24


“When I encounter women who are antifeminist, it’s always disorienting to me. I don’t understand how you can be a successful, happy woman right now unless you are a feminist.” - Kara Lee Corthron Kara Lee Corthron is an author, playwright, and TV-writer based in Los Angeles. Her latest book is DAUGHTERS OF JUBILATION. She’s also the author of THE TRUTH OF RIGHT NOW, winner of the Parents’ Choice Gold Award. Her plays including WHAT ARE YOU WORTH?, WELCOME TO FEAR CITY, ALICEGRACEANON, and HOLLY DOWN IN HEAVEN, have been performed across the U.S. She writes for the TV drama-thrillers YOU (Netflix), THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT (HBO-Max), and M. Night Shyamalan's SERVANT (Apple TV+). She’s a multiyear MacDowell Fellow and a resident playwright at New Dramatists. Connect with Kara on her website, Instagram,  or Twitter.   Kara's book recommendation: Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds Also mentioned: Wandering in Strange Lands by Morgan Jerkins The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- Join the #FBCReadathon October 9-11! Sign up to be eligible for prizes. Check out our Read. Resist. Vote. series featuring progressive woman candidates. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our October charity is March of Dimes. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our October book of the month is THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING by Alexis Henderson, who will be joining us for our discussion!   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
102: What Renee Read in September 2020

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2020 27:14


 An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Mentioned in this episode: Smash It! by Francina Simone Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins (podcast episode here) Running by Natalia Sylvester (podcast episode here) The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis Daughters of Jubilation by Kara Lee Corthron One of the Good Ones by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor -- Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our October charity is March of Dimes. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose  

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
101: Natalia Sylvester, author of Running

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2020 39:59


"A lot of times, we define feminism as equality, but if we’re measuring that against power structures that only got to power through oppression, then it’s not good enough." - Natalia Sylvester  Born in Lima, Peru, Natalia Sylvester is an award-winning writer of novels, essays, and poetry, including two novels for adults, CHASING THE SUN and EVERYONE KNOWS YOU GO HOME. Her debut YA novel, RUNNING, is a 2020 Junior Library Guild Selection that has been called "a searing exploration of privilege" by Shelf Awareness and an embodiment of "the theme of our decade: to stand up and speak up for what we believe in" by Booklist. Sylvester's essays have appeared in the New York Times, Bustle, Catapult, Latina magazine, and McSweeney’s Publishing. She received a BA in creative writing from the University of Miami and now lives and writes in Texas. Connect with Natalia on her website, Instagram,  or Twitter.   Natalia's book recommendations:  The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert I'm Not Missing by Carrie Fountain Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- Join the #FBCReadathon October 9-11! Sign up to be eligible for prizes. Check out our Read. Resist. Vote. series featuring progressive woman candidates. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our October charity is March of Dimes. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our October book of the month is THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING by Alexis Henderson, who will be joining us for our discussion!   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
100: Morgan Jerkins, author of Wandering in Strange Lands

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2020 40:03


"What did my people have to do to survive in order for me to exist in the first place? That is what’s great about genealogy." - Morgan Jerkins Morgan Jerkins is the author of the New York Times bestseller, This Will Be My Undoing and her newest book Wandering In Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots. A visiting professor at Columbia University and Senior Editor at ZORA, Jerkins's short form work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, ELLE, Esquire, and The Guardian, among many others. She is based in Harlem. Connect with Morgan on her Instagram or Twitter. Morgan's book recommendations:  Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin   Thank you for celebrating our 100th episode with us. Check out the ridiculous Instagram live celebration here. Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Rhino Parade. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our October charity is March of Dimes. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our October book of the month is THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING by Alexis Henderson, who will be joining us for our discussion!   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
99: Bianca Herzog, bookstagrammer at @mybookworldtour

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2020 34:32


"We need to be mindful about this concept of books teaching you something, especially books from different cultures. You can never summarize a whole country, culture, or reality from just one point of view." - Bianca Herzog Bianca Liu Herzog is the creator of @mybookworldtour, the Instagram account dedicated to her journey in reading one womxn authored book from every country in the world. When she isn’t reading, Bianca works full-time in international cooperation, with a focus on global youth development and empowerment. Bianca is Brazilian, of Chinese and German heritage, and currently lives in Paris, France, with her boyfriend and their puppy Oscar, but is packed to move to New York City as soon as COVID-19 allows. Books mentioned: Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World edited by Zahra Hankir (Lebanon) Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (Mexico) As Andorinhas (not in translation) and The First Wife by Paulina Chiziane (Mozambique) The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya (Rwanda) I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchú (Guatemala) Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (Poland) I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali (Yemen) Ponciá Vicêncio and Becos da Memória (not in translation) by Conceição Evaristo (Brazil) Cockfight by María Fernanda Ampuero (Ecuador) Afakasi Women by Lani Wendt Young (Samoa)   Read Rashmila's interview with the folks behind Mujeristas Collective on our blog. Get 25% off your Pretty Peacock Paperie order with the code FEMINIST. Get 25% off the Writer's Atelier writing course Plotting Your Prose with bestselling author Amy Christine Parker with the code FEMINIST. Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- Join the Feminist Book Club Team! Click to see our open positions here.   We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our September charity is Mujeristas Collective. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our October book of the month is THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING by Alexis Henderson.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
98: Jessica Goudeau, author of After the Last Border

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2020 42:34


"That was the starting place for me - how had we gone from a place of quiet support for refugees to a place of deep anti-refugee sentiment?" - Jessica Goudeau Jessica Goudeau has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Teen Vogue, among many other places, and is a former columnist for Catapult. She produced projects for Teen Vogue (“Ask a Syrian Girl”) and “A Line Birds Cannot See,” a documentary about a young girl who crossed the border into the US on her own. She has a PhD in literature from the University of Texas and served as a Mellon Writing Fellow and Interim Writing Center Director at Southwestern University. Goudeau has spent more than a decade working with refugees in Austin, TX and is the co-founder of Hill Tribers, a nonprofit that provided supplemental income for Burmese refugee artisans for seven years.  Click to buy AFTER THE LAST BORDER. Connect with Jessica on her website, Instagram or Twitter. Jessica's book recommendations:  The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- Join the Feminist Book Club Team! Click to see our open positions here.   We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our September charity is Mujeristas Collective. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our September book of the month is HURRICANE SEASON by Fernanda Melchor.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
97: Alexis Henderson, author of The Year of the Witching

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2020 31:57


"Anxieties about the world are driving people to horror fiction because they can feel the fear that they would’ve been feeling anyways but they know that these things at least can’t become real." - Alexis Henderson Alexis Henderson is a speculative fiction writer with a penchant for dark fantasy, witchcraft, and cosmic horror. She grew up in one of America’s most haunted cities, Savannah, Georgia, which instilled in her a life-long love of ghost stories. Currently, Alexis resides in the sun-soaked marshland of Charleston, South Carolina. Click to buy THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING. Connect with Alexis on her website, Instagram or Twitter. Alexis' book recommendation: The First Sister by Lindon A. Lewis   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- Join the Feminist Book Club Team! Click to see our open positions here.   We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our September charity is Mujeristas Collective. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our September book of the month is HURRICANE SEASON by Fernanda Melchor.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
96: What Renee Read in August 2020

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2020 22:09


An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Mentioned in this episode: Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo Luster by Raven Leilani The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America by Jessica Goudeau Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford   -- Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our August charity is The Loveland Foundation. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose  

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
95: Raven Leilani, author of Luster

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2020 34:08


"It’s important to me as a woman to make room for other women to be human, to express their wants in any form it takes." - Raven Leilani Raven Leilani's work has been published in Granta, The Yale Review, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, and The Cut. She received her MFA from NYU, and was an Axinn Foundation Writer-in-Residence. Her debut novel, Luster is out now from FSG. Connect with Raven on her website or Twitter. Raven's book recommendation: These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Minneapolis Craft Market. Get 10% off your order with code FEMINIST at www.mplscraftmarket.com. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our September charity is Mujeristas Collective. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our September book of the month is HURRICANE SEASON by Fernanda Melchor.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
94: Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2020 45:07


"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 The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, New Republic, and elsewhere. In addition to No Visible Bruises, she is the author of a novel What We've Lost is Nothing. Both books are now out in paperback. Connect with Rachel on her website or Twitter. Rachel's book recommendations: Notes on a Silencing by Lacy Crawford The Overstory by Richard Powers   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Reina Rebelde. Get 25% off your order with code FEMINIST at www.reinarebelde.com. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our August charity is The Loveland Foundation. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our September book of the month is HURRICANE SEASON by Fernanda Melchor.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
93: Romina Garber, author of Lobizona

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2020 38:54


"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 series. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and raised in Miami, Florida, she landed her first writing gig as a teen--a Sunday column for the Miami Herald that was later nationally syndicated--and she hasn't stopped writing since. Romina is a graduate of Harvard College and a Virgo to the core. Connect with Romina on her website, Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. Romina's book recommendations: What They Don't Know by Nicole Maggi (podcast interview here) Girl Squads: 20 Female Friendships That Changed History by Sam Maggs Diamond City by Francesca Flores Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez (podcast interview here) Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Candy's Kloset. Find them on Etsy and Instagram. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our August charity is The Loveland Foundation. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our August book of the month is HOOD FEMINISM: NOTES FROM THE WOMEN THAT A MOVEMENT FORGOT by Mikki Kendall.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
92: What Renee Read in July 2020

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2020 27:06


An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Mentioned in this episode: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder The Book of Rosy: A Mother's Story of Separation at the Border by Rosayro Pablo Cruz and Julie Schwietert Collazo The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias by Pragya Agarwal It Is Wood, It Is Stone by Gabriella Burnham With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo   -- Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our August charity is The Loveland Foundation. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose  

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
91: Laura Hankin, author of Happy and You Know It

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2020 32:29


"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 that she creates and stars in with her comedy duo, Feminarchy, have been featured in Now This, The New York Times, and Funny or Die. She grew up in Washington, D.C., attended Princeton University, and now lives in New York City, where she has performed off-Broadway, acted onscreen, and sung to far too many babies. Click to purchase HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT by Laura Hankin from our Bookshop.org site. Connect with Laura on her website, Twitter, or Instagram. Check out Laura's comedy project FEMINARCHY here. Laura's book recommendations: Beach Read by Emily Henry Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our August charity is The Loveland Foundation. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our August book of the month is HOOD FEMINISM: NOTES FROM THE WOMEN THAT A MOVEMENT FORGOT by Mikki Kendall.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
90: Meredith Talusan, author of Fairest

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2020 36:18


"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., Condé Nast's LGBTQ+ digital platform, where she is now a contributing editor. She has contributed to other books, including the New York Times bestseller Not That Bad (edited by Roxane Gay), Nasty Women, and Burn It Down. She writes frequently for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, WIRED, Condé Nast Traveller, and many other publications. She lives in the Western Catskills with her spouse and rescue mutt. Click to purchase FAIREST by Meredith Talusan from our Bookshop.org site. Connect with Meredith on her website, Twitter, or Instagram. Be sure to check out her writing workshops here. Meredith's book recommendation: On Being Human by Jennifer Pastiloff  Also mentioned in this episode: Heavy by Kiese Layman The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our August charity is The Loveland Foundation. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our August book of the month is HOOD FEMINISM: NOTES FROM THE WOMEN THAT A MOVEMENT FORGOT by Mikki Kendall.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
89: Natalee Woods, author of Full Support: Lessons Learned in the Dressing Room

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2020 34:58


"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 Review Press). She currently lives in Seattle and teaches within the public school system. Some of her other work has been featured in Salon, The Huffington Post, Chatelaine, and Reader’s Digest.  Connect with Natalee on her website or Instagram. Natalee's book recommendation: Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our August charity is The Loveland Foundation. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our August book of the month is HOOD FEMINISM: NOTES FROM THE WOMEN THAT A MOVEMENT FORGOT by Mikki Kendall.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
88: Jasmine Guillory, author of Party of Two

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2020 33:25


"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. Her work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, and Time. She lives in Oakland, California. Connect with Jasmine on her website, Twitter, or Instagram. Jasmine's book recommendation: The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Lotus and Luna. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our July charity is Soul Fire Farm. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our July book of the month is WITH THE FIRE ON HIGH by Elizabeth Acevedo.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
87: Lori M. Lee, author of Forest of Souls

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2020 34:41


"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 grew up in the far less tropical climate of Wisconsin where she still resides, although every winter makes her question why. She considers herself a unicorn aficionado, enjoys marathoning TV shows, and loves to write about magic, manipulation, and family. She is the author of several YA sci fi and fantasy books, including GATES OF THREAD AND STONE series, as well as a contributor to the anthologies COLOR OUTSIDE THE LINES and A THOUSAND BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS. Her newest book, FOREST OF SOULS, released June 23 and is a 2020 Junior Library Guild selection. Connect with Lori on her website, Twitter, or Instagram. Lori's book recommendation: The Princess Will Save You by Sarah Henning Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our July charity is Soul Fire Farm. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our July book of the month is WITH THE FIRE ON HIGH by Elizabeth Acevedo.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
86: What Renee Read in June 2020

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2020 22:43


An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Mentioned in this episode: Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West (FBC interview here) You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson (FBC interview here) The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory (FBC interview forthcoming) F*ckface: And Other Stories by Leah Hampton Proposals for the Feminine Economy by Jennifer Armbrust Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene A. Carruthers -- Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our July charity is Soul Fire Farm. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose  

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
85: Amanda Montell, author of Wordslut

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2020 52:27


"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 available now in paperback. Wordslut has been praised by Time Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Kirkus Reviews, Publisher's Weekly, and the New York Times. Amanda lives in Los Angeles where she is currently developing Wordslut for television with FX, while working on her second book, which is about the language of cults. In her spare time, Amanda enjoys learning impractical languages, doting upon her spoiled pets, and volunteering as a crisis counselor for LGBTQ youth. Connect with Amanda on her website or Instagram. Amanda's book recommendations: Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T. Kira Madden Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our July charity is Soul Fire Farm. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our July book of the month is WITH THE FIRE ON HIGH by Elizabeth Acevedo.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
84: Leah Johnson, author of You Should See Me in a Crown

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2020 35:54


"At the heart of any story about Black liberation is a story about Black joy, is about being able to move freely without fear of violence or prejudice." - Leah Johnson Leah Johnson is a writer, editor and eternal Midwesterner, currently moonlighting as a New Yorker. She is a graduate of the fiction writing MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College and currently teaches in their undergraduate writing program. Leah is a 2021 Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Fellow whose work has been published in BuzzFeed, Autostraddle, Catapult, and Electric Literature among others. Her bestselling debut YA novel, You Should See Me in a Crown was an Indies Introduce and Junior Library Guild selection. Her sophomore novel, Rise to the Sun is forthcoming from Scholastic in 2021. Connect with Leah on her website, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. Leah's book recommendation: All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Small Moments. -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our July charity is Soul Fire Farm. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our July book of the month is WITH THE FIRE ON HIGH by Elizabeth Acevedo.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
83: Catherine Adel West, author of Saving Ruby King

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2020 39:39


"Equality is not exclusive to a group. Neither is it one particular group's responsibility to carry the torch for everyone else." - Catherine Adel West Catherine Adel West is an editor living and working in Chicago. She graduated with both her Bachelors and Masters of Science in Journalism from the University of Illinois, Urbana. Her work is published in Black Fox, Five2One, Better than Starbucks, Doors Ajar, 805 Lit + Art, The Helix Magazine, Lunch Ticket and Gay Magazine. Saving Ruby King is her first novel. PREORDER SAVING RUBY KING! Connect with Catherine on her website, Twitter, and Instagram. Catherine's book recommendations: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara The Chiffon Trenches by André Leon Talley Kindred and Fledgling by Octavia Butler Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin Also mentioned: All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies by Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our June charity is The Cupcake Girls. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our June book of the month is WOW, NO THANK YOU by Samantha Irby.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript83

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
82: What Renee Read in May 2020

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2020 24:50


An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Mentioned in this episode: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb Braised Pork by An Yu Full Support: Lessons Learned in the Dressing Room by Natalee Woods (podcast interview forthcoming) This Spell Can't Last by Isabel Sterling How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell (podcast interview forthcoming) Happy & You Know It by Laura Hankin (podcast interview forthcoming) Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee (podcast interview forthcoming) Fairest: A Memoir by Meredith Talusan (podcast interview forthcoming)   -- Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our June charity is The Cupcake Girls. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript82  

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
81: Lisa Braxton, author of The Talking Drum

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2020 31:50


"There were a lot of people in the Civil Rights movement who did things that were so important to move the country forward who were not in the South." - Lisa Braxton Lisa Braxton is an Emmy-nominated former television journalist, a former newspaper reporter, an essayist, short story writer and author of THE TALKING DRUM. She received honorable mention in Writer’s Digest magazine’s 84th and 86th writing contests in the inspirational category and was a finalist in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. She is also a “debutante,” one of five debut novelists chosen for the Debutante Ball, a group blog for authors making their debut in the literary world, and writes book reviews.   Connect with Lisa on her website, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Lisa's book recommendation: Rememberance by Rita Woods Check out The Debutante Ball blog featuring five debut authors! Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- JUSTICE FOR GEORGE FLOYD. ◾️ Mayor Jacob Frey at 612-673-2100 ◾️ Hennepin County Attorney at 612-348-5550 ◾️ MPLS Internal Affairs Division at 612-673-3074 ◾️ MPLS Department of Civil Rights at 612-673-3012 ◾️ MPLS FBI field office at 763-569-8000 ◾️ MPD 3rd Precinct at 612-673-5703 ◾️ MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension at 651-793-7000 ◾️ Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis 612-788-8444 (phone numbers compiled by All Are Welcome Here)   CLICK FOR MORE ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES (h/t FBC members Dave and Steph) -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our June charity is The Cupcake Girls. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our June book of the month is WOW, NO THANK YOU by Samantha Irby.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript81

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
80: Rocky Callen, author of A Breath Too Late

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2020 34:37


"Hope is not this delicate wishy-washy thing. Hope is ferocious. Hope can eclipse the darkest things that we experience." - Rocky Callen Rocky Callen, the daughter of an Ecuadorian immigrant, has long lived a life of service ever since she was a 13-year-old when she started to advocate for social rights at congress. She continued her advocacy work for years and received a BA in Communications and Political Science. After college, she was a behavioral coach for over a decade and a writing mentor. She received an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. A Breath Too Late, a young adult novel about suicide, depression and domestic violence is her debut novel. ENTER TO WIN A COPY OF A BREATH TOO LATE. Connect with Rocky on her website and Instagram. Rocky's book recommendations: Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough Edge of Anything by Nora Shalaway Carpenter Sadie by Courtney Summers   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our June charity is The Cupcake Girls. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our June book of the month is WOW, NO THANK YOU by Samantha Irby.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript80

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
79: Nicole Maggi, author of What They Don't Know

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2020 36:29


"Just because a state has an abortion restriction law that isn’t as strict as another state doesn’t mean that it’s not as damaging." - Nicole Maggi Nicole Maggi began writing poems about unicorns and rainbows at a very early age. She detoured into acting, earned a BFA from Emerson College, and moved to NYC where she performed in a lot of off-off-Broadway Shakespeare. After a decade of schlepping groceries on the subway, she and her husband hightailed it to sunny Los Angeles, where they now reside surrounded by fruit trees, with their daughter and two oddball cats. Nicole is the author of six books, including five novels for teens and one non-fiction middle grade. Her 2018 novel What The Don’t Know was praised by Booklist as “an engaging, emotional debate on rape and abortion.” Her 2015 novel The Forgetting was a Junior Library Guild Selection, a #1 Kindle bestseller, and a finalist for the 2016 International Thriller Writers Thriller Award for YA Fiction.   Connect with Nicole on her website, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Nicole's book recommendations: Lobizona by Romina Garber Educated by Tara Westover   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- Get 10% off your bamboo toilet paper with the code FEMINIST at bimbamboopaper.com. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our May charity is The Letter Project. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our June book of the month is WOW, NO THANK YOU by Samantha Irby.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript79

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
78: Abbe Wright, host of The Adaptables

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2020 37:44


"The novel will be imbued with a new sense of thought after people watch the show and then they'll come to the book with a new perspective." - Abbe Wright Abbe Wright is the host of The Adaptables and the Read It Forward podcasts, and is Senior Editor of Read it Forward, an online book vertical that helps readers discover exciting new books and classic reads. Previously, she was a contributing editor at Glamour, where she helmed the magazine’s 2015 College Women of the Year competition, and an assistant editor at O, The Oprah Magazine, where she contributed to the Reading Room and Live Your Best Life sections and worked on Oprah’s Book Club 2.0. She has also written for The Cut, Metro, Modern Bride, Elegant Bride, and Philadelphia Magazine. She earned a B.A. in English from Denison University in Granville, OH. She was raised outside of Philadelphia and lives in Brooklyn, NY.   Connect with Abbe on her website, Twitter, and Instagram. Tune into The Adaptables on Apple Podcasts. Abbe's book recommendations: All Adults Here by Emma Straub The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré Stray: A Memoir by Stephanie Danler All My Mother's Lovers by Ilana Masad   Other books mentioned on this episode: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng The Assistants by Camille Perri The Lost Night by Andrea Bartz The Herd by Andrea Bartz Normal People by Sally Rooney Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our May charity is The Letter Project. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our May book of the month is GOOD TALK by Mira Jacob. Hear our interview with Mira here.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript78

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
77: What Renee Read in April 2020

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2020 28:16


An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Mentioned in this episode: BookRiot reading log - template here Rules for Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell and Katie Cotugno (FBC interview here) Educated by Tara Westover The House of Deep Water by Jeni McFarland (FBC interview here) Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow What They Don't Know by Nicole Maggi (FBC interview forthcoming) A Breath Too Late by Rocky Callen (FBC interview forthcoming) Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness Naturally Tan by Tan France Trust Exercise by Susan Choi These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling The Talking Drum by Lisa Braxton (FBC interview forthcoming) Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson -- Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our May charity is The Letter Project. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our May book of the month is GOOD TALK by Mira Jacob. Hear our interview with Mira here.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript77  

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
76: Jeni McFarland, author of The House of Deep Water

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2020 31:21


"There tends to be a feeling of who belongs in small towns and if you're an outlier in any way, the town will try to get you to conform." - Jeni McFarland Jeni McFarland holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Houston, where she was a fiction editor at Gulf Coast Magazine. She's an alum of Tin House, a 2016 Kimbilio Fellow, and has had short fiction published in Crack the Spine, Forge, and Spry, which nominated her for the storySouth Million Writers Award. She was also a finalist for the 2015 Gertrude Stein Writers Award in Fiction from the Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. She has lived in Michigan and the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two cats. The House of Deep Water is her first book.   Connect with Jeni on her website, Twitter, and Instagram. Jeni's book recommendation: Love War Stories by Ivelisse Rodriguez (listen to Ivelisse's episode here!) Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our May charity is The Letter Project. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our May book of the month is GOOD TALK by Mira Jacob. Hear our interview with Mira here.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript76

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
75: Andrea Bartz, author of The Herd

Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2020 34:28


"For women, we spend a lot of time observing how other women are being received and we pay a lot of attention to how we are being received, in a way that men just don’t have to think about." - Andrea Bartz Andrea Bartz is a Brooklyn-based journalist and author of the forthcoming thriller THE HERD. Her debut, THE LOST NIGHT, is being developed for TV by Mila Kunis. It was named a best book of the year by Real Simple, Glamour, Marie Claire, Library Journal, Crime Reads, Popsugar, She Reads, and other publications. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Women's Health, Martha Stewart Living, Elle, and many other outlets, and she's held editorial positions at Glamour, Psychology Today, and Self, among other titles. Connect with Andrea on her website, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Andrea's book recommendations: Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar -- Enter to win a copy of THE HERD here! -- This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Artifacts of Joy by Lauren Strom. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our May charity is The Letter Project. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our May book of the month is GOOD TALK by Mira Jacob. Hear our interview with Mira here.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript75