sophia stewart Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Sophia Stewart is a writer. editor of @the_millions / writing @theatlantic @thebafflermag @hyperallergic etc

The Red Zone: A Love Story
Chloe Caldwell
i wrote about chloe caldwell’s THE RED ZONE, an intimate memoir that is, among other things, about women’s bodily integrity https://t.co/9kwkhzoN9Y
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Jimi Hendrix Live in LVIV
Andrey Kurkov
An ode to Lviv, western Ukraine’s cultural capital, now transformed by war. A snapshot of the city as it was in the early aughts, the novel chronicles the antics of a cast of eccentrics across the city, with a dash of magical realism thrown in for good measure.
Paperback, 2024
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton
Lynn Melnick
The author writes with remarkable vulnerability and candor yet ensures that the often-painful memories she relates don’t cloud her critical gaze. She moves gracefully between confessional and analytical registers, her prose both sharp and full of heart.
Hardcover, 2022
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
Tiya Miles
In writing, Miles found that the outside world afforded many 19th-century women freedom of movement…that they could access nowhere else…With Wild Girls, Miles intended to explore the impact of the outdoors on these women—but she did not imagine just how profound that impact was.
Hardcover, 2023
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
Regan Penaluna
i wrote about philosophy's gender gap and regan penaluna's HOW TO THINK LIKE A WOMAN for @theatlantic https://t.co/2O0B0FVwdx
Paperback, 2024
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Woo Woo
Ella Baxter
A sharp, scathing satire of the monstrousness of the contemporary art world... Baxter has an acerbic pen, aided by an ear for dialect--she wields both internet- and therapy-speak, not to mention the willfully opaque language of the art world, to great effect in skewering her target.
Hardcover, 2024
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television Volume 1
Annie Berke
for @lareviewofbooks i reviewed THEIR OWN BEST CREATIONS by @sayanniething, which carefully traces the lives and legacies of TV's first women writers https://t.co/I3zIUnFdJP
Paperback, 2022
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Letters: Including Several Never Before Published
John Newton
@HeatherScottP chloé cooper jones’s EASY BEAUTY, ada calhoun’s ALSO A POET, celia paul’s LETTERS TO GWEN JOHN, samantha hunt’s THE UNWRITTEN BOOK, maud newton’s ANCESTOR TROUBLE—just to name a few!
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Mona Acts Out
Mischa Berlinski
In the latest novel from the National Book Award finalist, a 50-something actress reevaluates her life and career when #MeToo allegations roil the off-off-Broadway Shakespearean company that has cast her in the role of Cleopatra.
Hardcover, 2025
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Unwritten Book: An Investigation
Samantha Hunt
@HeatherScottP chloé cooper jones’s EASY BEAUTY, ada calhoun’s ALSO A POET, celia paul’s LETTERS TO GWEN JOHN, samantha hunt’s THE UNWRITTEN BOOK, maud newton’s ANCESTOR TROUBLE—just to name a few!
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book