- 1. 10 Fanstastic New Books by Women to Make Catching Up on that New Year's Resolution to "Read More" a Breeze! ...
- (Books)
- ... The Unsustainability of American Motherhood By Jessica Grose (Mariner Books) It’s no secret that American mothers have it rough, but in New York Times journalist Jessica Grose’s new book, she reveals ...
- Created on 24 January 2023
- 2. Amber Tamblyn Chats with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón - A BUST Interview
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- Ada Limón was just named the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate in July. Here, writer/actor Amber Tamblyn speaks with her about this huge honor and how poetry can change the world: Mexican-American poet Ada ...
- Created on 10 January 2023
- 3. Get To The Other Side Of Loss With These 10 Biographies On Grief and The Human Experience
- (Books)
- My introduction to books about grief happened a few weeks after my mother died. It was 1996, the weekly support group I’d been attending had just ended, and the counselor invited me back to his office ...
- Created on 29 September 2022
- 4. "Petite Maman": A Little Girl, a Witchy House, and Why Grief Needs a Container—BUST Revie
- (Movies)
- ... bereaved mother, Marion, has just exited stage left, too upset by the death of her own mother to deal with the house and its archives — the childhood notebooks, the shadow panther that hunts and haunts ...
- Created on 22 April 2022
- 5. Diane di Prima Blesses Us One Last Time With "Spring and Autumn Annals," A Previously Unpublished Memoir and Elegy To A Frien
- (Books)
- ... first to show that being daring, angry, dangerous, and even ugly on the page was a weapon worth wielding against a patriarchal world. Best known for her books Loba and Revolutionary Letters, di Prima’s ...
- Created on 31 March 2022
- 6. Joan Didion and Me: How the Writer's "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" Showed Me The Power of a Woman's Voice, in the Literary World and Bey
- (Feminism)
- ... with The National Medal of Arts from Obama and a PEN USA lifetime achievement award in 2013. She left us with sixteen books, seven films, a play, and at least two generations of writers influenced by her ...
- Created on 11 January 2022
- 7. 3 Short Story Collections For Long Winter Nights
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- FIVE TUESDAYS IN WINTER: STORIES By Lily King (Grove Press) On the surface, the 10 tales in novelist Lily King’s debut short-story collection don’t have much in common. There’s “The Man at the ...
- Created on 06 January 2022
- 8. The 10 Best Feminist and Female-Centered Books of 2021 to Cozy Up With This Christmas Break, According to BUST
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- Are you trying to cozy up with some good books as the weather gets cooler and we welcome in 2022? Are you looking for some compelling new reads with strong female protagonists and thought-provoking ...
- Created on 21 December 2021
- 9. In Her Memoir "The Big Hurt," Erika Schickel Looks At Her Self-Imposed Bad Girl Image Through A New Len
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- In her new memoir, The Big Hurt, author and actress Erika Schickel re-examines her “bad girl” self-image and offers an intimate look into her long process of healing from emotional and sexual trauma. ...
- Created on 18 October 2021
- 10. Meet the Women Who Seek Out (and Find) "Happy-Ending" Massages ...
- (Sex)
- ... tail all over this room, knocking books off the shelf,” Stewart instructed. He demonstrated, and Cookie joined in. This time, she felt less inhibited from the beginning. “We were just a couple of dinosaurs ...
- Created on 15 October 2021
- 11. Three Slow Burn Novels For the Fall: A Fictional Account of 12 Century Poet Marie de France, a murder-mystery, and Happy Hour, a Debut Novel about 2 Young Women Navigating a Hot NYC Summer
- (Books)
- ... A Novel By Lauren Groff (Riverhead Books) Over 800 years after her death, almost nothing is known about Marie de France—France’s first recorded woman poet. Aside from her work (and one vague epilogue ...
- Created on 14 September 2021
- 12. Issa Rae To Play Spider-Woman In Upcoming Marvel Film, And We're Here For I
- (Movies)
- ... named HYDRA. The character was killed off in 1983, then somehow resurrected in later books. There's a possibility that Drew’s backstory might be changed, however, since Into the Spiderverse writers are ...
- Created on 07 June 2021
- 13. In Honor of AAPI Heritage Month, Read These 10 New and Upcoming Works By AAPI Authors
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- May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! But since there’s really no reason to restrict it to just one month, here is a list of new and upcoming works by AAPI authors to read all year ...
- Created on 10 May 2021
- 14. Lilly Dancyger Shines Light Into the Dark Corners of Her Family’s Past In Gut-Wrenching New Memoir, "Negative Space
- (Books)
- ... appeared in the Spring 2021 print edition of BUST Magazine. Subscribe today! More from BUST Michelle Zauner Loses Her Mom And Searches For Her Identity "Crying In H Mart" 4 Witchy Books To Look Out ...
- Created on 03 May 2021
- 15. Michelle Zauner Loses Her Mom and Searches for Her Identity "Crying In H Mart
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- In 2018, Michelle Zauner wrote about how, after her mother’s death, she would break down crying in H Mart, the Korean American supermarket where the two often shopped. The viral New Yorker essay that ...
- Created on 19 April 2021
- 16. Helen McCrory, Known For Harry Potter and Peaky Blinders, Dead at 52
- (Entertainment)
- On April 16, Helen McCrory died at age 52 after losing her battle with cancer. She was most notably known as Narcissa Malfoy in the Harry Potter franchise and as Polly Gray in Peaky Blinders. The British ...
- Created on 19 April 2021
- 17. Remembering Jessica Walter from "Arrested Development," Plus 5 Amazing Lucille Bluth Quotes To Brighten Your Da
- (Entertainment)
- In the years before her death this week at 80, actor Jessica Walter captured the essence of the 2000s with her embodiments of cold, distant, self-centered matriarchs on Archer and Arrested Development. ...
- Created on 26 March 2021
- 18. Lana Del Rey's "Chemtrails Over the Country Club" Is Her Least Controversial Album — And One Of Her Be
- (Music)
- The music video for Lana Del Rey’s “White Dress” is a collage of sun-bleached visuals: wind turbines, a barking golden retriever, a desert road at dusk, and a barbecue joint with roller-skating waitstaff ...
- Created on 24 March 2021
- 19. Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Trailblazing Women in Law Before Her
- (Sponsored)
- ... that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg advocated for tirelessly and admired publicly in the years before her death. The passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September 2020 as both books were nearing production ...
- Created on 15 March 2021
- 20. Desire and Reality Collide in Melissa Broder's New Novel "Milk Fe
- (Books)
- Rachel is 24 and ravenous; for her mother’s love, for her Jewish faith which she’s strayed too far away from, and for all of the food she’s forbidden herself to eat. She maintains a sense of control ...
- Created on 11 February 2021
