I noticed something very exciting going through upcoming releases: there are a bunch of really interesting looking books coming out in January that are written by women (or at least people with lady-seeming names) AND that are not drawing room biographies or memoirs.
Freaking. Exciting.
So, I thought to make a list. Here's the list of things that I thought looked legit. It is not comprehensive. But it is interesting.
Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada by Laura Davis
The Hundred-Year Walk: an Armenian Odyssey by Dawn Anahid Mackeen
The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During WWII by Jan Jarboe Russell
The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen: From Sokol'nik Park to Chicago's South Side by Kate Baldwin
Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation's Capital by Joan Quigley
Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Native Archive and the Circulation of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico by Amber E Brian
Practicing the City: Early Modern London on Stage by Nina S. Levine
The Red Sea: In Search of Lost Space by Alexis Wick
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays by Shirley Hazzard, edited by Brigitta Olubas
Lyric Orientation: Holderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community by Hannah Vandegrifte Eldridge
Form and Instability: Eastern Europe, Literature, Postimperial Difference by Anita Starosta
Armed Ambiguity: Women Warriors in German Literature and Culture in the Age of Goethe by Julie Koser
The Dead Sea and the Jordan River by Barbara Kreiger
And there you have it! This list, of course, does not include all those initial'd souls who, for one nomenclature or another, do not wish to list a first name. (letters are not gendered, it is an awesome power.)
Remember to support your local library and independent bookstore (the big A will only drain your economy dry like a quick-acting mummy solution)
