By Sarah E. Rowley Book News and Awards In January 2017, out bisexual author Roxane Gay pulled her forthcoming book How to Be Heard from major US publisher Simon & Schuster, in protest of the company’s decision to publish white supremacist Milo Yiannopoulos. Best known for his racist, sexist online campaign against black comedienne Leslie…
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The Bi Bookshelf – Winter 2017
Big Book News We’re now at the height of book awards season, and a novel focused on a bi woman has been short-listed for the National Book Award for Fiction, one of the U.S.’s most prestigious literary prizes. August, the narrator of Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn, featured in the last version of this column, has…
The Bi Bookshelf: Bi+ Creativity
Books that might be of interest to readers of the Bi Women Quarterly By Sarah E. Rowley New Book from One of Our Own! Ann Tweedy, a BWQ contributer, has published her first fulllength collection of poetry, The Body’s Alphabet. Her poems explore human vulnerability and the need for belonging, family relationships marred by mental…
The Bi Bookshelf: Bi+ Spaces
By Sarah E. Rowley Books that might be of interest to readers of the Bi Women Quarterly Big Book News We’re now at the height of book awards season, and a novel focused on a bi woman has been short-listed for the National Book Award for Fiction, one of the U.S.’s most prestigious literary prizes….
The Bi Bookshelf Fall 2016
New Fiction Featuring Bisexual Women One of the biggest U.S. books of 2016 so far is Jennifer Haigh’s Heat and Light, a novel about the coming of fracking to a small Pennsylvania town. A bisexual woman grappling with her sexuality and her lesbian or trans partner appears to be central to the plot, and so…
The Bi Bookshelf: Does Gender Matter?
By Sarah E. Rowley Books that might be of interest to readers of the Bi Women Quarterly New Fiction Featuring Bisexual Women One of the biggest U.S. books of 2016 so far is Jennifer Haigh’s Heat and Light, a novel about the coming of fracking to a small Pennsylvania town. A bisexual woman grappling with…
Bi Women Reading…
Dring the recent book swap we took our usual go-around to mention books we’ve been reading and might suggest for others. Happy reading! Nonfiction Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, by Rachel Maddow Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain Learned Optimism: How to Change Your…