Books
Reading Rainbow Redux: Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible! By Jonathan Goldstein
Earlier today some people were discussing their love of the show Reading Rainbow in the Bitch comments section, and I was inspired to do my own Rainbow-style book review. Here are some of my thoughts on... Read more »
What Colonialism Needs is a Little More Bling
Richard Bernstein thinks Asian women are attracted to Western men because they think colonialism is glamorous. And here I thought it was an exploitation thing.
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Women In Search of a Voice: An Interview with Kate Walbert, Author of <i>A Short History of Women</i>
Bitch is proud to announce our new book lovin’ blog, Bibliobitch! To kick off our foray into the land of literature, here is an interview with author Kate Walbert by Bitch contributor Sarah Seltzer. Stay tuned for more, you bitchy bookworms, you.
Kate Walbert’s new novel... Read more »
Sarah Haskins' Book Club
Besides shooting Infomania at Current.com, writing and pitching a screenplay, contributing to the Post and... Read more »
Desiring Poetry in the Afterlife: Goodbye Kamala Das
The late Kamala Das' poetic words of female sexuality and desire stirred the world.
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"Girls Like Us"
First things first: I stan for Joni Mitchell.
That journalist Sheila Weller’s NYT Bestseller, “Girls Like Us” also features Carole King and Carly Simon is a nice extra, of course. I haven’t even finished this book yet, but I just have to gush about it. It’s music history, it... Read more »
He's a write-her
So…I’m reading Little Bee by Chris Cleave, but why am I thinking about Wally Lamb and Arthur Golden?
The bookjacket blurb for Little Bee (published as The Other Hand in the UK) doesn’t give away much about the story, just that it is about two women “whose lives collide one... Read more »
Selena Roberts, Part Two
This past week, sports-wise, we had a bit of a truth crisis.
We had Manny Ramirez’s 50-game suspension for testing positive for a banned substance—about which he had... Read more »
A Celebration of Caribbean Authors
Calabash International Literary Festival hopes to provide a space that fosters the region's literary history and the work of modern day writers.
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Mother's Day, by the book
There are three books about black women and motherhood that rocked my world when I read them: Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood; I’m Every Woman: Remixed Stories of Marriage, Motherhood, and Work; and a novel, Jump at the Sun. Lucky me, I also got to interview the authors,... Read more »
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