In Letters Never Sent, we meet Katherine Henderson, a young farm girl with a desire for big city adventure. She...
The novel inhabits teenage experience with tremendous perfection—from the mighty importance of phone calls to the ongoing hunt for a good house party. Read More
Brace Yourself—part title, part warning—is the debut e-book collection from Alysia Angel. Angel, a noted fiction, non-fiction, and memoir-based writer and...
She Rises is an intriguing well-written debut that will please historical fiction fans, especially those interested in what constructs of gender have looked like in the past. Read More
This month, Arsenal Pulp Press is releasing a new edition of Sarah Schulman’s celebrated novel After Delores. Initially published in 1988, this gritty...
If everyone is used to objectifying women, like it’s just a thing used to sell toothpaste and jeans and trick us into watching rom-coms, how do you write about sex and the erotic in a way that only the intended audience is picking up what you’re putting down? Read More
If books have sensibilities, and I believe they do, Georgeann Packard’s Paint the Bird has an artist’s—it is dark, moody,...
Jill Malone’s Giraffe People (Bywater Books) is a rich exploration of character Cole Peters’s adolescent angst: difficult parents, irascible siblings, evil...
The Rowling affair has raised the specter of women’s literary past in which the pseudonym was no mere whimsy, but essential to being taken seriously as a writer or even being published at all. Read More
Ali Liebegott’s novel Cha-Ching! is like a message in a bottle, a moment of desperation, survival and dreams. The novel,...
