Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. The aims of these lists are threefold: Happy April, and Happy National Poetry Month. Since my dormant love of poetry was reignited, I’ve found it so refreshing and inspiring to read beautiful collections each year…
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April 2023 Reads for the Rest of Us – Ms. Magazine
Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. The aims of these lists are threefold: If you’re reading this column, you have an interest in books and reading and so, by default, new ideas and expanding your knowledge base. Fiction…

March 2023 Reads for the Rest of Us – Ms. Magazine
Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. The aims of these lists are threefold: Happy March! Historically, March is a very popular month for new books, and this year it is no exception. And more new books mean more…

February 2023 Reads for the Rest of Us – Ms. Magazine
Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. The aims of these lists are threefold: It’s February and in Wisconsin it’s grey, cold, snowy and dark. But it’s also sparkly, comforting, restful and reflective. Between the weather, the world and…

Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2023 – Ms. Magazine
Through this column, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. The aims of the column are threefold: I have spent the last few months scouring catalogs and websites, receiving hundreds of books and even more emails from authors, publicists…

2022 ‘Best of the Rest’: Our Favorite Books of the Year! – Ms. Magazine
Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. The aims of these lists are threefold: You’ve read the other “Best of” lists—now read the other one. You know, for the rest of us. Each year, I review my…

November Reads for the Rest of Us – Ms. Magazine
Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. The aims of these lists are threefold: As we enter into cooler weather here in the U.S. Midwest, it’s not only a time of reflection and shedding of old skins—it’s clearly the…

October Reads for the Rest of Us – Ms. Magazine
Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. The aims of these lists are threefold: Happy autumn (in the Northern hemisphere)! As I write this, we are observing the autumnal equinox, where the daylight hours exactly equal the nighttime hours….

September 2022 Reads for the Rest of Us – Ms. Magazine
Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. The aims of these lists are threefold: I want to do my part in the disruption of what has been the acceptable “norm” in the book world for far too long—white, cis,…

August 2022 Reads for the Rest of Us – Ms. Magazine
Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. The aims of these lists are threefold: I want to do my part in the disruption of what has been the acceptable “norm” in the book world for far too long—white, cis,…