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Books

Bitter Magic Book Review

August 26, 2021 by Rebecca Welper Leave a Comment

Recently I was lucky to get my hands on a copy of Nancy Kilgore’s latest novel, Bitter Magic (in 2011 RCWMS published her novel Sea Level). I’ve long been fascinated […]

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Women Rise Up

July 25, 2019 by Christine Houghton Leave a Comment

women rise up book cover, white with blue and red letters

Bodies that menstruate, birth, nurse. Bodies that grieve and sacrifice. Bodies that are infertile. Bodies that are taken advantage of and mistreated. Bodies fighting for survival. Bodies that are broken […]

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Marcy Litle reviews Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom

July 23, 2019 by Marcy Litle Leave a Comment

stack of books

Tressie McMillan Cottom is a black sociologist and public intellectual. I had never heard of her—which, it turns out, is a significant theme in her book—until I read a review […]

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Across the Great Lakes

February 19, 2019 by Fran Wescott Leave a Comment

Across the Great Lakes book cover featuring image of young woman and a ship

“Haunting” is a word that comes to mind as I reflect on Lee Zacharias’ new novel. Set largely in the mid-1930’s on Lake Michigan and the harbor town of Frankfort, […]

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Events for The Last Straw by Bryant Holsenbeck

January 29, 2019 by Marya McNeish Leave a Comment

Bryant Holsenbeck reading at the Durham Co-op Market

As I moved through my friend Bryant Holsenbeck’s new book, The Last Straw, I was struck by its accessibility.  The book, ostensibly about Bryant’s journey to rid single-use plastic from […]

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Territories of the Soul

November 8, 2018 by Melissa Gamble Leave a Comment

book cover Territories of the Soul by Nadia Ellis

Nadia Ellis’ Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora brilliantly articulates how black diasporic belonging transcends dominant understandings of identity based on locality/time/space. By analyzing the modalities […]

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An evening of storytelling with Nancy Corson Carter

July 16, 2018 by Melissa Gamble 1 Comment

The Never-Quite Ending War book cover

On Wednesday, June 27th, I attended a reading by Nancy Carson Carter on her new book,  The Never-Quite Ending War: A WWII GI Daughter’s Stories. Nancy illuminated stories of her […]

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Swimming Between Worlds

June 20, 2018 by Fran Wescott Leave a Comment

I confess, much as I’m drawn to a bottle of wine with a provocative label, I’m also attracted to a book with high-profile accolades. So, when I was handed a […]

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Art-Party and Fundraiser for Bryant Holsenbeck’s Book, “The Last Straw”

May 21, 2018 by Andrea Davis 1 Comment

The Last Straw book cover

When people are gathered for an art party, one may imagine paint, canvases, and brushes, or at least some paper and scissors. Since Bryant Holsenbeck was involved, something would be […]

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Saving Bobby

May 21, 2018 by Agnieszka McCort Leave a Comment

On average, 115 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose.[1] That is one American every 12.5 minutes, a staggering statistic. As a public health professional with over a decade experience […]

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Ursula K. Le Guin

May 3, 2018 by Marcy Litle Leave a Comment

Once upon a time I used Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea in a first-year writing class centered on the theme of what makes a hero. I loved […]

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Whiskey & Ribbons: A Novel

December 20, 2017 by Meghan Florian Leave a Comment

Click here to read RCWMS Communications Director Meghan Florian’s review of Whiskey & Ribbons for The Englewood Review of Books. Whiskey & Ribbons, Leesa Cross-Smith’s first novel, is a love story folded inside […]

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The Middle of Things: Essays

October 19, 2017 by chris Leave a Comment

In the tradition of classic essayists from Virginia Woolf to Annie Dillard, Meghan Florian combines personal narrative with careful analysis, taking the ordinary material of undramatic daily life and distilling […]

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I Await the Devil’s Coming

August 7, 2017 by Savannah Lynn 1 Comment

When a friend handed me I Await the Devil’s Coming, a slim and red-covered volume, she was fairly reticent about its content. “Looks cool,” I commented. “What’s it about?” She […]

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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

July 25, 2017 by Colleen Sharp Leave a Comment

One of the most useful terms I’ve learned, passed on to me by Kari Barclay, is “Kingsplaining.” It’s a verb that describes the process by which people in power use […]

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Young Adult Lit

July 20, 2017 by Savannah Lynn Leave a Comment

I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. I used to defend myself when caught on my university campus with a book marketed to teenagers propped in my lap, but honestly, who […]

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Wild Mountain

July 11, 2017 by Savannah Lynn Leave a Comment

In Wild Mountain, Mona Duval has concocted a tidy life for herself in the rural town of Wild Mountain, Vermont. Escaped (mostly) from a bad marriage, she runs a general store […]

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The Handmaid’s Tale

June 20, 2017 by Meghan Florian Leave a Comment

I recently found a used copy of The Handmaid’s Tale at a local library book sale. In preparation for Hulu’s television adaptation I decided it was finally time to fill […]

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Women’s Bodies as Battlefield

November 1, 2016 by Rebecca Welper Leave a Comment

I was speaking with a friend last week about watching the third presidential debate. She remarked that she wanted to skip it, but would probably watch to remind herself that […]

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Faithfully Feminist

September 1, 2016 by elizabeth mcmanus-dail Leave a Comment

“Survival is a creative act,” Erica Granados De La Rosa writes in her essay, “What Has Remained.” Survival is a creative act. And it is from such creation, and Creation, […]

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Something New

June 2, 2016 by Meghan Florian Leave a Comment

I love food. Growing it, cooking it, eating it, sharing it with friends. I also love to read, so it should come as no surprise that when I came across Lucy […]

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The Humble Essay

May 5, 2016 by Meghan Florian Leave a Comment

As memoir has surged in popularity, this other beloved nonfiction form, the essay, seems to go in and out of style. Critics alternately lament the demise or herald the resurgence […]

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Summer Reading Retrospective

August 25, 2015 by Meghan Florian Leave a Comment

This summer I set out to read only books by women. This was not hard to do, though I struggled once or twice to maintain my commitment when I came […]

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Searching for Sunday

July 6, 2015 by Bess Fitzgerald Leave a Comment

In the 70’s, we boomers raged and sneered about the Generation Gap. Those we now call ‘the greatest generation’ appeared to us youngsters as blind to the present and busy […]

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