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1. How Much Do You Know About Joan Didion?

(Books)

Our April/May 2018 Pop Quiz by BUST editor Emily Rems is all about Joan Didion.  Journalist, essayist, novelist, memoirist, playwright, and screenwriter Joan Didion is a literary giant famous ...

Created on 26 April 2018

2. Party Like An Activist With Prophets Over Profits

(Feminism)

...  Mae Rock Camp for Girls, a year-round nonprofit that provides girls and gender non-conforming youths from ages 8-17 music, art, literary and mentorship programs. Their ultimate goal is to empower wome ...

Created on 13 April 2018

3. Celebrating tatiana de la tierra And The Latina Lesbian Zine Culture Of The '90s

(Books)

... s friends and literary executors Olga García Echeverría and Maylei Blackwell. top image: detail from For The Hard Ones More from BUST Myriam Gurba's "Mean" Explores Growing Up A Queer "Molack" In Califo ...

Created on 06 April 2018

4. Thoughts On Dating, Provoked by "The Bachelor"

(TV)

... work has appeared in Elm Leaves literary journal. She hopes to eventually go to grad school, but in the mean time she posts quotes on Instagram (@catniss___), and maintains a personal blog—where you can ...

Created on 26 March 2018

5. 10 New Feminist-Friendly Books To Read This Spring

(Books)

... Nunes A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf By Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) With ...

Created on 16 March 2018

6. 6 Feminist Zines That Get Us Pumped To Fight the Patriarchy

(Style)

...  fests. Contribute: Just stay tuned and wait for their prompt for their third issue. Susie Magazine Provocative and powerful in its imagery, Susie is a bi-annual art and literary journa ...

Created on 01 March 2018

7. "Fits And Starts" Is A Hilarious Interpretation Of Modern Artistry: BUST Review

(Movies)

... on two writers in New York City who happen to be married. Jennifer (Greta Lee), known in the literary world as J.M. Lee, is an acclaimed author who has managed to survive the dreaded sophomore slump with ...

Created on 06 December 2017

8. 11 Books By Women To Read This November

(Books)

... by Lizz Goodman, the semiautobiographical debut What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons, and many more. Subscribe to BUST magazine here, and check out more of our book reviews, interviews, lists and other literary ...

Created on 14 November 2017

9. Myriam Gurba's "Mean" Explores Growing Up A Queer "Molack" In California: BUST Interview

(Books)

...  in various forms, as well as the mental and physical repercussions that follow. She hopes the novel will allow readers to better analyze these themes, as well as expand the American literary canon to includ ...

Created on 01 November 2017

10. This Brooklyn Theater Troupe Is Staging A Gender-Swapped "Macbeth"

(Entertainment)

... re's How Well They Worked The 10 Greatest Songs About Literary Heroines    ...

Created on 31 October 2017

11. Week Of Women: October 27-November 2, 2017

(Entertainment)

... , get at me: erikawsmith@bust.com). When we have, we'll include a note and a link to our review. Enjoy! MOVIES Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold Literary icon Joan Didion, now 82, is  ...

Created on 26 October 2017

12. Afropunk 2017 Was A Joyous Act Of Resistance

(Music)

... rapher who documents culture and the arts. Since 1995, Marcia has captured a wide variety of literary events in New York City for leading print and digital platforms. Her work has appeared in the New York ...

Created on 29 August 2017

13. Sexy Backs, Headless Women And Book Covers

(Books)

... was presumably meant to assure readers that however muted (i.e. perhaps literary) the cover, the story did indeed include a woman who might, if called upon for marketing purposes, stand out on the prairie, ...

Created on 17 August 2017

14. 11 New Books By Women To Read This Summer

(Books)

...  once depressing and enjoying – an act of literary virtuosity. From her father’s fatal overdose to her brother’s dying child, Andrea’s perspective allows for some deep digging into the shadows sides of ...

Created on 10 July 2017

15. Paula Cole Returns To Her Jazz Roots: BUST Interview

(Music)

... And he was so brave. His lyrics are twisted with Lewis Carroll, so he’s literary — and yet he’s just so simple and raw sometimes. Last week happened to be the 50th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper’s release. ...

Created on 16 June 2017

16. 11 New Books By Women To Read Right Now

(Books)

Refresh your to-read pile with these books from the BUST Guide in April/May 2017's print edition. Featuring new books from Roxane Gay, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Patricia Lockwood — plus a collection of ...

Created on 21 April 2017

17. Playwright-Performer Sarah Jones (And Company) Talk Trump's First Hundred Days: BUST Interview

(Arts)

... ric connecting ears and hearts across the continents, in rhyme." Have you seen a meaningful literary and artistic response to recent attempts to "render us deaf to one another"? Habiba: If you atten ...

Created on 18 April 2017

18. Latin American Female Writers Will Gather In New York To Talk About Facism, Misogyny, Capitalism, And Gender Segregation In Literature

(Living)

...  of reading literary production across borders and censors, particularly those of the Chilean military dictatorship. Now, 30 years after, AFEST, a gathering of Latin American Authors in New York, arrive ...

Created on 24 March 2017

19. The Weird And Wonderful Austin, Texas: BUST Travel Guide

(Living)

... their diverse and unique selection (and check their calendar for feminist literary events). Vintage hunters should skip the overpriced stores on South Congress, and head to Treasure City Thrift (2142 E. ...

Created on 21 March 2017

20. 14 Books By Women To Make Your February A Little Brighter

(Books)

... th even matters. 4/5  – Erika W. Smith Scream: A Memoir of Glamour 
and Dysfunction By Tama Janowitz (Dey Street Books) What happens to a bohemian literary “It”-girl 
after fame fades? Br ...

Created on 06 February 2017