- 1. These 3 New Non-Fiction Titles Explore Women's Relationship to Money, The Personal Narrative, and Feminism in Myanma
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- ... “navel-gazing.” She notes quite aptly that, “the resistance to memoirs about trauma is always in part...a resistance to movements for social justice.” Febos’ words of advice are wisely peppered with bits ...
- Created on 26 April 2022
- 2. Phoebe Robinson on her Comedy Special, Book Release, and Starting a Publishing Imprint, Tiny Reparations
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- While everyone else was slowed down by COVID, comedian, bestselling author, producer, and actor Phoebe Robinson was busy taking over the world. Between her HBO Max special, her production company, and ...
- Created on 08 February 2022
- 3. 13 Women of Color-Owned and Operated Bookstores You Can Support Right Now
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- ... color at their center. Yu & Me Books carries almost 16,000 titles, with titles that range from YaYa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom to memoirs like Qian Julie Wang’s Beautiful Country, and other lesser-known ...
- Created on 04 February 2022
- 4. "This Boy We Made" is the Tale of One Black Mother's Journey Through Mothering a Chronically Ill Child, Genetics, and Facing the Unkno
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- This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown By Taylor Harris (Catapult) In her moving memoir, author Taylor Harris traces her son Tophs’ journey as he struggles ...
- Created on 11 January 2022
- 5. "Passport: A Graphic Memoir" Tells Sophia Glock's Story of Growing Up and Coming-of-Age as the Child of CIA Agen
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- Passport: A Graphic Memoir By Sophia Glock (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) Cartoonist Sophia Glock spent her youth in the 1990s growing up in gated and heavily guarded residences in Latin ...
- Created on 30 December 2021
- 6. The 10 Best Feminist and Female-Centered Books of 2021 to Cozy Up With This Christmas Break, According to BUST
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- ... themes over the holiday season? Look no further. Here’s a round-up of BUST’s best 2021 page-turners. We’ve got everything from memoirs on grief to graphic novels to queer love stories. Check them out! ...
- Created on 21 December 2021
- 7. Hashing It Out: #MeToo Trailblazer Tarana Burke Opens Up About Her Message of Solidarity and Writing Her Remarkable New Memoir, Unbound
- (Feminism)
- ... to the bigger story.” Like Angelou, Burke can see herself writing multiple memoirs. “A lot of stories for Black girls are about the ‘special snowflakes,’ and you’re made to believe you have to be so ...
- Created on 14 September 2021
- 8. Free Your Mind: New Non-Fiction From B-Movie Queen Elvira, Mistress of Darkness, and Believing, a Cultural Analysis on Gender-Violence from Anita Hill
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- Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark By Cassandra Peterson (Hachette Books) Elvira is one of those celebs who seems to have sprung from the ground fully formed—sky-high ...
- Created on 09 September 2021
- 9. "Nothing That Restricts": Ashley C. Ford Gives Us A Peek Into The Practice That Produced Her Memoir: BUST Intervie
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- Journalist, podcaster, educator, and social-media maven Ashley C. Ford has written one of the most anticipated memoirs of the season. Somebody’s Daughter (out June 1) chronicles her upbringing in Indiana ...
- Created on 26 May 2021
- 10. Glennon Doyle Taught Me Not To Listen To Glennon Doyle—Or Anyone
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- ... advice, doesn’t always have all of the answers. I listened to Glennon Doyle teach me not to listen to her—not to listen to anyone, for that matter. While self-help books and memoirs are very helpful, ...
- Created on 05 March 2021
- 11. 12 Books By Black Women Authors To Add To Your To-Read List
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- ... movement. From immersive tales to hilarious essays to poignant memoirs, here’s a list with something for everyone. Fiction The Vanishing Half: A Novel by Brit Bennett What starts off similarly ...
- Created on 12 June 2020
- 12. Ban.do Founder Jen Gotch Wants You To Feel Less Alone: BUST Interview
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- ... Book We Desperately Deserve Author Rachel Vorona Cote On "Muchness," Femininity, And Her New Book: BUST Interview Fierce Feminist Author Alix Kates Shulman Revisits "Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen" 45 Years ...
- Created on 26 March 2020
- 13. Week Of Women: March 20-26, 2020
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- ... her ex-pat daughter (Juliette Binoche) when her memoirs are published. Out March 20. MUSIC/PODCASTS “Roses/Lotus/Violet/Iris” by Hayley Williams and boygenius Williams was supposed to drop an ...
- Created on 20 March 2020
- 14. Fierce Feminist Author Alix Kates Shulman Revisits "Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen" 45 Years Late
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- ... the youngest 87-year-olds you’ll ever have the pleasure of meeting. And indeed, she has long been willing to “talk about those things.” Her groundbreaking 1972 book, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, was her ...
- Created on 27 January 2020
- 15. What New Generations Can Learn From Elizabeth Wurtzel's Legac
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- ... essays and memoirs that are equally messy, rage-filled, honest, and unfiltered, and maybe we have Wurtzel to thank. Her work in the ’90s was often “too much” for some, but she was a trailblazer — one who ...
- Created on 07 January 2020
- 16. Jaquira Díaz On "Ordinary Girls," Home, And Telling Her Story: BUST Intervie
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- ... or coming-of-age or gender or desire or sexuality or our bodies or trauma is just “navel-gazing,” while cis men are always considered intellectuals, even when they write domestic novels or memoirs about ...
- Created on 03 January 2020
- 17. Why Can't Gen X Women Sleep? Author Ada Calhoun Breaks It Down On BUST's Poptarts Podca
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- Ada Calhoun is the author of the memoir Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, named an Amazon Book of the Month and one of the top ten memoirs of 2017 by W magazine; and the history St. Marks Is Dead, one ...
- Created on 20 December 2019
- 18. Kyoto Bans “Geisha Selfies” Because Tourists Don’t Know How To Behave Themselves
- (Feminism)
- ... 300-year-old teahouse made famous by the book and film, Memoirs of a Geisha. Hundreds of tourists flock to this landmark in the city’s Gion district but not because they’re interested in its cultural and ...
- Created on 05 November 2019
- 19. Tegan and Sara Go Back To High School In Their Joint Memoir
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- Some memoirs are all-encompassing, whereas other memoirs provide you with just a slice of a person’s life. This memoir is the latter. Many of us would likely run the other way if someone asked us to ...
- Created on 20 September 2019
- 20. 5 Great New Books By Women To Curl Up with This Fall
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- It's finally fall: the perfect time to head to a park or café with a book you just can't put down. Here are five new and upcoming novels, memoirs, and collections — all reviewed in our September/October ...
- Created on 05 September 2019
