- 1. 7 Best Biopics About Women to Watch When You Need to Feel Inspired (and 1 For When You Don't
- (Movies)
- ... on a variety of streaming platforms. Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly's 2016 non-fiction hit book Hidden Figures was the inspiration for this movie by the same name. In 1961, a group of three ...
- Created on 30 November 2022
- 2. Get To The Other Side Of Loss With These 10 Biographies On Grief and The Human Experience
- (Books)
- ... offers the opportunity to learn from her journey and be inspired. This type of uplift and validation is often associated with non-fiction, memoir, self-help, and poetry. But biography has transformative ...
- Created on 29 September 2022
- 3. These 3 New Non-Fiction Titles Explore Women's Relationship to Money, The Personal Narrative, and Feminism in Myanma
- (Books)
- BODY WORK: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative By Melissa Febos (Catapult) For her latest book, acclaimed memoirist Melissa Febos offers a master class for would-be writers looking to find ...
- Created on 26 April 2022
- 4. The 10 Best Feminist and Female-Centered Books of 2021 to Cozy Up With This Christmas Break, According to BUST
- (Books)
- ... what it means to be a parent.” Non-Fiction When Women Invented Television – New York Times’ bestselling author, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong brings us another spectacular book that sheds light on ...
- Created on 21 December 2021
- 5. 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)
- Happy Hour: A Novel By Marlowe Granados (Verso Fiction) Happy Hour, the debut novel by Marlowe Granados, follows Isa and Gala, two best friends in their early 20s, as they survive a sweltering summer ...
- Created on 14 September 2021
- 6. 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
- (Books)
- 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
- 7. Author Roxane Gay Amplifies Underrepresented Voices With Her New Publishing Imprint Roxane Gay Books
- (Books)
- ... voices, and must classify as fiction, non-fiction, or memoir. Submissions both agented and unagented will be temporarily accepted, depending on the volume of manuscript pitches. The first call for submissions ...
- Created on 27 May 2021
- 8. Happy Masturbation Month! Here Are 6 Books For Your Reading Pleasure
- (Books)
- May is International Masturbation Month! The month is coming (ha) to a close, but there’s still a few more days to celebrate May’s lesser known designation. There’s still quite a bit of stigma surrounding ...
- Created on 26 May 2021
- 9. The Women's Prize Excludes Akwaeke Emezi With Transphobic Requirement
- (Books)
- ... First Book Prize in 2016. The prize accepts fiction and narrative non-fiction and is open to women of color and non-binary writers of color. The Carol Shields Prize, the Stella Prize, and the Louise ...
- Created on 05 October 2020
- 10. Margaret Atwood Is Here To Save Us (Again), But This Time With Self-Quarantine Recommendations
- (Books)
- ... her loyal fans which of these recommendation options they would like to see the most. Mia Farrow was the first to reply: “Plague books.” Atwood promptly responded: “One of the classic non-fictions is ...
- Created on 20 March 2020
- 11. How "The Farewell" Brings Diverse Death Traditions To Lif
- (Movies)
- ... disappoint tourists. Doughty’s non-fiction novel includes a chapter on Mexico that tells a history of how the holiday was once viewed “as out-moded folklore, practiced by people at the outskirts of civilized ...
- Created on 13 August 2019
- 12. The Power of Popular Fiction For Thomas Cromwell And Wolf Hall
- (Living)
- ... novel Wolf Hall in 2009, there has been a profusion of non-fiction books published about the life of Thomas Cromwell. To set the record straight, you might suppose. You would suppose wrong. The majority ...
- Created on 26 June 2019
- 13. Karen Russell's "Orange World And Other Stories" Is A Powerful Reflection Of Our Current Social Conflic
- (Books)
- ... about global warming. Other pieces hint at debates around consent, consumerism, and postpartum depression. They get at a truth more revealing than if they were non-fiction. Add to that Russell’s deft turns ...
- Created on 14 May 2019
- 14. Francesca Lia Block Celebrates Tackling Premarital Sex And AIDS On 30th Anniversary Of Iconic "Weetzie Bat" Debu
- (Books)
- ... later, Block has published more than twenty-five award-winning books of fiction, non-fiction, short stories, memoir, and poetry, which have been published in over ten languages. I caught up with her ...
- Created on 08 May 2019
- 15. Progressive Christian Writer Rachel Held Evans Dies At 37
- (Feminism)
- ... also wrote several books, one on the relationship between womanhood and the Bible. In her New York Times best-selling 2012 non-fiction book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, lived as closely as she could ...
- Created on 07 May 2019
- 16. 9 New Books By Women Authors To Add To Your To-Read List
- (Books)
- ... 4/5 –Shannon Carlin Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” By Zora Neale Hurston (Amistad, April 23, 2018) In this never-before published non-fiction work by groundbreaking author Zora Neale ...
- Created on 15 August 2018
- 17. In 1861, 25-Year-Old Isabella Beeton Changed Cookbooks Forever
- (Eat Me)
- Published in 1861, Beeton’s Book of Household Management is perhaps one of the most famous non-fiction books to come out of the 19th century. At over one thousand pages long, it was the first publication ...
- Created on 23 January 2018
- 18. The Four Sisters Who All Became Mistresses Of Louis XV
- (Feminism)
- ... can I find out more? There aren’t that many solid non-fiction books on the ladies, BUT there is a good historical fiction book. The Sisters of Versailles by Sally Christie is a fun popcorn read; kinda ...
- Created on 08 January 2018
- 19. 11 Books By Women To Read This November
- (Books)
- ... not allowed in her non-fiction writing. It seems that she used these works as sketchbooks of sorts to explore form and structure. Her themes are familiar—literature, relationships, art, activism, loss, ...
- Created on 14 November 2017
- 20. This NYC Girl Scout Troop Is Making Our Feminist Dreams Come True
- (Feminism)
- ... and Susan B. Anthony and would be the first of the statues in the park to depict non-fictional women. Currently, there are 22 statues of historical male figures, but the only female representation includes ...
- Created on 04 October 2016
