‘So Much To Be Done: The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner’ Edited by Barbara Sjoholm
This is not another pity-party book written by someone with a life-threatening illness. Instead, Brenner’s writing provides a map for future activists and organizers.
‘Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith’ by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks with Barbara Smith
[Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around is] a collection of stories that stress not only the importance of a movement but also its role and influence in larger society and culture as a whole.
‘You’re Not Edith’ by Allison Gruber
If the autobiographical essays in You’re Not Edith are any indication, Allison Gruber has a surprisingly functional (not to mention intimate) relationship with all things strange and eccentric.
‘The Selected Letters of Willa Cather’ edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout
In one of Willa Cather’s letters to her beloved brother Roscoe she writes, “As for me, I have cared too much, about people and places–cared too hard. It made me as a writer, but it will break me in the end.” Losing those near to her very nearly did break Cather, but it is our great fortune that she let herself care as much as she did.
