Posts tagged “reviews”
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Ms. Magazine reviews In Our Control
May 21, 2010
Laura Eldridge’s new book In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women (Seven Stories Press, 2010) isn’t kidding with that subtitle. The last time I remember reading so much detail about contraceptive options was poring over Our Bodies, Ourselves when I was in my 20s. … Eldridge learned women’s health writing at the side of the late women’s health advocate and activist Barbara Seaman, and it shows. She contextualizes her work with her own experience and preferences, but provides thorough documentation so that women can more easily make their own decisions. This is women’s health activism at its best. — Elizabeth Kissling, Ms. Magazine
Tags: barbara seaman, In Our Control, Laura Eldridge, ms magazine, reviews, women's health, women's issues
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Bad Shoes reviewed at Juxtapoz
May 19, 2010
Growing up in a home where my mother covered the floor of her closet with pumps, sandals, flats, and more shoes than Imelda Marcos could shake a foot at, it’s no wonder that at 25 my shoe collection is nothing to play with. Being that my closet is filled with heels ranging from 3 ½”- 5”, I was quite skeptical when I began reading Bad Shoes and the Women Who Love Them by Leora Tanenbaum. While I do not plan on trading in my Calvin Klein platforms for a pair of Aerosoles, I have been convinced to be a bit more practical when deciding which shoes to wear to work versus the ones to wear on date nights.
Leora Tanenbaum is no stranger to shining a light on some of the everyday issues that plague women in this seemingly modern age, her first three books dealt with slut-bashing, cat-fighting, and women reclaiming God. As a feminist writer, it seemed only natural for her to tackle to phenomenon of perfectly sensible women wearing shoes that are unhealthy in the name of fashion and feeling feminine. In the attempt to issue a much needed wake up call to the stilettoed masses, Tanenbaum enlists a bevy of experts on feet, fashion, and the Carrie Bradshaw wannabes who walk Manhattan in Louboutins to the detriment of their bodies. … Overall the book is not a call for us to burn our heels but for us to become more informed consumers. —M.I.S.S. at Juxtapoz
Tags: bad shoes, fashion, juxtapoz, leora tanenbaum, reviews, women's health, women's issues
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Bad Shoes reviewed in Venus Zine
May 11, 2010
After undergoing a surgery brought on by a fondness for cutely covered feet, feminist fashionista Leora Tanenbaum knew she had to change her bad shoe-wearing ways. Illustrated by Vanessa Davis, Tanenbaum’s Bad Shoes explains why women need to start putting their heads over their heels by learning the art of moderation. From the Venus Zine review of Bad Shoes and the Women Who Love Them
Tags: bad shoes, leora tanenbaum, reviews, vanessa davis, venus zine, women's health
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Glyphjockey on Barry Gifford’s Sailor & Lula novels
April 30, 2010
Life is short and my reading list long (currently on my third Mary Roach in a row – currently thinking up pot puns for that review, which will be shortly) and so I don’t actively seek out amazing anymore. The wheel of karma brings it to me. My sister bought me Sailor’s Holiday (the 3rd book in the series) as a Christmas request from me. It opens up with child sacrifice, migrates to pimps harvested for their organs and encounters with conjectured afterlife. Amplified from the original Wild at Heart, (the first book) and yet with the Gifford flavor all along; life’s mundane moments inherently contain enough reflectivity for him to provide insights.
Tags: barry gifford, fiction, glyphjockey, reviews, sailor & lula
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Racing While Black reviewed at The Complex
April 16, 2010
Even if you’re not an avid racing fan, we’re sure you’ve caught the grand oval spectacle know as NASCAR at least once in your life. After all, behind the NFL, it’s the second most-viewed sports league in the country. However, there’s one major difference between NASCAR and the rest of America’s pastimes: a startling lack of racial diversity. Leonard T. Miller’s book explains why. —The Complex
Tags: andrew simon, complex, leonard t miller, race, racing while black, reviews, sports
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The Old Garden reviewed at the Collagist
April 15, 2010
The Old Garden by Hwang Sok-yong (which you can start reading here, for free!) was just reviewed in the April 2010 issue of The Collagist. Take a look below.
Tags: collagist, fiction, hwang sok-yong, old garden, reviews, videos
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Racing While Black reviewed in Washington Post
March 2, 2010
From the Washington Post for February 28, 2010, a dual review of Mark Bechtel’s He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back and Seven Stories Press’s own Racing While Black:
… Bechtel paints an excellent portrait of these colorful racers and their Scotch-Irish culture, in which Rebel flags are not rare. So why on Earth were Leonard W. Miller, founder of Miller Racing, and his son, Leonard T. Miller — successful, educated members of the black elite — obsessed with NASCAR racing? It’s a question that perplexed their fellow African Americans, who regarded their quest as “a suicide mission into the country’s deepest pockets of racism.”
Tags: andrew simon, leonard t miller, race, racing while black, reviews, sports, washington post
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Harvard Law Record on Nader’s super-rich: “These 17 and some of their friends may indeed be the most realistic hope we have”
February 12, 2010
From the Harvard Law Record article by former “Nader’s Raider” Robert Fellmath, regarding Ralph Nader’s “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!”:
The fun of reading this book is in joining the author’s fantasy, but punctuating it with our own tactics—what we would do to correct the world’s deviant path had we the resources and visibility of these 17. The characters in this book seek structural and leveraged change—advocacy for public budgets and laws and international agreements—that properly embody more than the exploitation of narrow self-interest. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has radically shifted ground and allowed (contrary to the judgment of the people’s democratic institutions) many billions of corporate and union money to directly influence elections, those interests with capital investment in current profitable enterprise—whether it be mining the seas, polluting the earth, or collecting medical benefits for power wheelchairs and Cialis on the backs of their grandchildren—will increasingly lock-in their self-protection and their imposed external burden on others. Their free ride, notwithstanding future costs, will be further and irretrievably calcified into public law.
Tags: articles, fiction, harvard law record, only the super-rich can save us, ralph nader, reviews, robert fellmath
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Daybreak reviewed at Rusty Lime
February 11, 2010
From Kim OJ at Rusty Lime, “a collective of bloggers brought together from all over the world in the interest of bringing you original stories, news, opinions and occasional relevance”:
… After reading Daybreak, I realized that though healthcare reform and emission reductions are extremely important, securing democracy is even more fundamental. What use is good legislation if the president can just ignore it? Chose not to enforce the laws, or break them himself? What Swanson advocates in Daybreak is that Congress enforce the Constitution by impeaching ANY president who fails to uphold it. Only by enforcing the Constitution can we expect presidents and others to uphold it.
… There is no doubt that Swanson is a progressive, but the main thesis of Daybreak does not belong on the fringe of the political spectrum, but should be at home across the broad middle of political ideologies that subscribe to democracy and the rule of law.
Tags: current events, david swanson, daybreak, politics/government, reviews, rusty lime
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10,000 Dresses reviewed at Rainbow Rumpus
February 5, 2010
Rainbow Rumpus — “the magazine for kids with LGBT parents” — has written not one, but two excellent reviews of Marcus Ewert and Rex Ray’s 10,000 Dresses: one for kids, and one for parents. Check them out, and congratulations yet again to Marcus and Rex!
Tags: 10000 dresses, lgbt, marcus ewert, rainbow rumpus, reviews, rex ray, ya