Welcome to Feminist Book Club! FBC is a monthly column in which we explore written works through a feminist lens. Each post features one book and announces the pick for the following month’s post. We will cover everything from essay collections to novels, from memoirs to plays. This column is meant to be inclusive of […]
One of my favorite series growing up was Ann M. Martin’s Babysitters Club books, about a group of plucky young girls who managed to go to school, have a social life, and deal with teenage issues while simultaneously running their own small business taking care of the neighborhood kids. I gobbled up the novels when I was […]
Today, I am a published author. Which is pretty cool. I even did that whole thing where I went to Barnes & Noble to see my book on the shelf, then sat in the aisle and cried like a baby while I stared at it. (Actually, I did much worse, because while that was happening, […]
Size six. Aquamarine eyes. Perfect mirror images with perfectly contradictory personalities. Oh, you minions of Francine Pascal—you’ve lovingly ghostwritten a flawless duo for the ages! Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield, may you ever be frozen in time in your sunny utopia, where, if you’re super-pretty times two, nothing that bad can ever happen. Uh, except that […]
There’s nothing like a good reread—and when you’re really craving comfort, old school is the way to go. We’ve rounded up 10 of our favorite go-tos from the 1980s and ’90s for your reading pleasure. But keep in mind: ’80s and ’90s YA was all about the incredible whiteness of being, with a few exceptions—like […]
