- 21. Make Some B-Movie Magic With Josie Cotton's Groovy New Tune, “Girl In Gold Boots”: BUST Premier
- (Music)
- ... (1965), “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” (1970) and John Water's iconic cult classic “Female Trouble” (1974), which Cotton released as a digital single earlier this month. You could say that the singer-songwriter ...
- Created on 30 April 2020
- 22. “For Neither Love Nor Money”: Artist Sawyer Rose Shines A Light On Women’s Invisible Labor
- (Arts)
- ... the word about the true costs of gendered work inequity in the U.S., Rose builds large-scale installation sculptures using personal stories and work data collected from a diverse group of female-identifying ...
- Created on 06 December 2019
- 23. "Wordslut" is Smart, Hilarious, And Challenges Standard Language ...
- (Books)
- Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language By Amanda Montell (Harper Wave) In Wordslut, journalist and linguist Amanda Montell introduces the subject of sociolinguistics—where ...
- Created on 15 July 2019
- 24. How Teen Movies Shaped Us — Possibly For The Worse
- (Movies)
- ... at fellow female classmates because “given the right look, the right boyfriend, anyone can be this year’s prom queen.” “What about her?” Evans says, pointing to a girl with a hunchback. “Way too easy,” ...
- Created on 27 June 2019
- 25. In This Anthology, 15 Writers Break The Silence
- (Books)
- What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence Edited by Michele Filgate (Simon & Schuster) Editor Michele Filgate’s anthology, What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About, ...
- Created on 21 June 2019
- 26. Not So Proud or Prejudice: The Emotionally Vulnerable Hero
- (Books)
- ... irresistible emotional vulnerability that could melt the heart of even the most indifferent female. And yes, he is the first to declare his feelings. “I wanted ye from the first I saw ye—,” he admits ...
- Created on 06 March 2019
- 27. "Corn Fed" Writer Melanie LaForce On Anxiety, Writing, And Coming Of Age In The Midwes
- (Books)
- ... essays and humor for New York magazine and the Washington Post, and you can check out an excerpt from Corn Fed in BUST here. I first met her in an online group for female comedy writers, and then in person ...
- Created on 31 January 2019
- 28. Books Are Magic Founder Emma Straub Shares Her Winter Reading Picks
- (Books)
- ... In Real Life) and Morgan Jerkins (This Will Be My Undoing) are two of the store’s best-selling authors. “We have a young female readership here,” she says, “and they are really interested in the stories ...
- Created on 24 January 2019
- 29. "The Future Is Female!" Celebrates Women Sci-Fi Writers Of The 1920s-1960
- (Books)
- ... lends itself nicely to a feminist take. In a world that is very limiting to women—especially in the times the stories in The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories By Women, From Pulp Pioneers ...
- Created on 08 January 2019
- 30. The Belladonna Co-Founder Caitlin Kunkel On “New Erotica for Feminists”
- (Books)
- ... Together, the foursome co-founded The Belladonna, which Vulture recently described as “the new Onion, a combination humor/fake news/lifestyle parody site from a sharp, female and/or feminist point of view ...
- Created on 20 December 2018
- 31. BUST's 23 Best Books Of 201
- (Books)
- In each issue of BUST's print magazine we review at least 14 books, and we also feature additional book reviews on BUST.com. Here, we’ve rounded up 23 of our favorite books published in 2018, featuring ...
- Created on 18 December 2018
- 32. The Best Historical Fiction To Curl Up With This Winter
- (Books)
- ... some fine and fancy dandies and heavy swooning. In most of Heyer’s books, the female lead is utterly kickass, charming, and quick-witted, but none more so than Judith Taverner, the main bitch from Regency ...
- Created on 14 December 2018
- 33. "Worlds Of Ursula K. Le Guin" Shows The Evolution Of A Wizard, Writer, And Feminist ...
- (Movies)
- ... works of fiction to have zero female characters. If ladies were invited, they were probably bikini-clad aliens or cyborgs. Men were at the center of Le Guin’s early works. As Le Guin says in the film, ...
- Created on 26 November 2018
- 34. This 19th Century Writer Put His Hatred Of Cats Into A Science Book
- (Living)
- ... Griswold Goodrich, a.k.a Peter Parley, circa 1844 You will note that Parley refers to cats in the feminine. One might even infer that he considers the traits he describes to be essentially female traits. ...
- Created on 20 November 2018
- 35. "The Second Shelf" Is Fighting Literary Sexism ...
- (Books)
- ... bookshop and quarterly print publication, The Second Shelf (TheSecondShelf.com), offers not only a way to get your hands on tough finds by female authors, but also offers new writing to discover. “I read ...
- Created on 06 November 2018
- 36. 9 Witchy Books To Read This Halloween
- (Books)
- ... family from 1821 to 1945. The Orchire family, who are Romani, have to flee Brittany in 1824 after being harassed by a priest. The gift of magic gets handed down through the female line. Devoting one chapter ...
- Created on 26 October 2018
- 37. The "Girls Write Now" Anthology Shows The Importance Of Young Female Voice
- (Books)
- Girls Write Now: ?Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices By Girls Write Now (Tin House Books) Girls Write Now, a book of personal essays written by high school girls, is both a feat ...
- Created on 16 October 2018
- 38. Busy Philipps Discusses Her #MeToo Experience And Her Mission To Take Down The Patriarchy In BUST Exclusive Interview
- (Feminism)
- ... call E! or…? He kept asking whose idea it was and how I got it. It was mine, it’s mine. It was my idea.” “There’s something so comforting to me about women, and I am truly inspired by all of my female ...
- Created on 09 October 2018
- 39. 19 New Books By Women And Nonbinary Authors To Read In October 2018
- (Books)
- ... Rebecca Traister explores the power of female rage in this nonfiction book. Out October 2. Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart by Alice Walker The Color Purple author Alice Walker's latest releases ...
- Created on 02 October 2018
- 40. Jane Mayer Co-Wrote The Report On Kavanaugh With Ronan Farrow—Don't Erase Her Wor
- (Living)
- ... story in prominence. This “celebrification of journalists” is usually credited to Watergate and its principle journalists, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. Female journalists, even those working the ...
- Created on 25 September 2018
