The New America Foundation’s Broadly Speaking series hosted Riverhead author Hanna Rosin and New York Times columnist Gail Collins for an incredible evening of conversation in celebration of Rosin’s forthcoming thunderbolt of a book THE END OF MEN.
The night led to a lively debate on evolving gender roles as the two women discussed everything from equal chore distribution (spoiler alert: men still do less housework!) to why ambitious women are still viewed as “bitchy” in the workplace to the gender-neutral mecca currently known as Sweeden.
Stay tuned for lots more buzz on this book!
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The awesome blog Paperspines is doing a book giveaway of The Chaperone, based on the life of silent film star Louise Brooks and coming out in June 2012. It’s already being named the “#1 Summer Read of 2012” by various newspapers. Click to win a signed copy!
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Hope to see all our book friends at the first ever fundraiser for VIDA on June 18 at the Brooklyn Brewery! Riverhead Books is proud to host this beer & dancing throwdown for a worthy cause.
booksmatter:
In college, one of my English professors threatened to institute a “sorry jar” policy for the females in his classes. Like the “swear jar,” the sorry jar would have required a monetary donation any time a female spoke in class and, at some point in her talking, apologized. Apparently his female students—strong, smart women in a top liberal arts college—often (unconsciously, accidentally) apologized, just for expressing their ideas.
In 2011, The Atlantic published 235 pieces men and 91 by women. Harper’s: 141 men, 42 women. The London Review of Books: 504 men, 117 women.
VIDA: Woman in Literary Arts compiles the above numbers every year, one of their many efforts to explore critical and cultural perceptions of writing by women. Their first annual fundraiser, hosted by Riverhead Books, will be June 18, 2012, in Brooklyn. I suggest you attend—not only to drink unlimited beer and to mingle with Emma Straub but to support this organization and the women writers out there who, every day, are fighting to be heard.
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millionsmillions:
“‘Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted,’ Robert Louis Stevenson once noted, ‘certain coasts are set apart for ship-wreck.’ And so we find ourselves on working class Loyalty Island, the setting for Nick Dybek’s potent coming of age novel, When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man.”
- Mindy Farabee
A fabulous review of Nick Dybek’s stunning debut from our friends at The Millions!
Thank you to all who joined us last night at the stunning Silver Lining to toast the lovely Emma Straub and her forthcoming novel LAURA LAMONT’S LIFE IN PICTURES.
Above, snapshots from the party: The fabulous jacket alongside custom “Laura Lamot” cocktails - a glamorously deadly mix of gin, champagne & lemon and party co-hosts Vanity Fair’s Elissa Schappell and Riverhead Books editor Megan Lynch raise a glass to Emma who far and away won Best Dressed in her incredible old Hollywood-style gown.
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newyorker:
In Comment this week, Margaret Talbot looks at same-sex marriage: “Same-sex marriage is a historical inevitability—and what people say about it now, for and against, will be seen in that light…”
New from Margaret Talbot in this week’s New Yorker.
Brooklyn’s Book Court was packed to the rafters last night for the launch of Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s A SENSE OF DIRECTION. Thanks to all who came out and joined in the celebration!
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A gorgeous book cake from Lizz Winstead to celebrate her publication day for LIZZ FREE OR DIE! Thank you, Lizz!
