Category: Features
Listen Up: Audiobooks by Smithies
If you’re an Amazon Prime member looking to take advantage of a great deal on 3 months of...
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Pre-Order Alert: Summer 2018 Books by Smithies
No matter what you like to read, you can bet a Smithie is writing it. This summer’s crop of...
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Happy Birthday Betty Friedan ’42
Smith College alumna and formative feminist thinker Betty Friedan ’42 was born on February 4th, 1921.
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Six Smithie Poets for #SmithiesRead 2018
Smith has turned out a lot of poets — or maybe a lot of poets choose to go to Smith? If Sylvia Plath is the only Smithie whose poetry you’ve read, you are in for a treat. Here are six collections by Smithie poets to get you started.
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Satisfying Reads from Smithie Romance Novelists
If you’re looking for a steamy read with a satisfying happily-ever-after, we have you covered. Plus, you can trust a Smithie to write a fierce heroine.
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10 Smithie Memoirs & Biographies to Inform and Inspire
Smithies Lead (as the slogan goes) interesting and influential lives. For the first item in the 2018 #SmithiesRead challenge, here are the lives of 10 Smith women in memoir and biography form, from the names you know to some you’ve probably never heard before.
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#SmithiesRead: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Better your bookish bucket list this year with the Books by Smithies 2018 Reading Challenge!
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“Storytelling by implication”: An Interview with Mareth Griffith ’06, author of COURT OF TWILIGHT (+ a Giveaway!)
Mareth Griffith ’06, author of COURT OF TWILIGHT, dishes on writing outside the edges of genre, her JYA experience in Ireland, and the tricky business of writing with a day job.
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Katy Ames ’02 on Romance’s Bad Reputation
Romance novelist Katy Ames ’02 sheds some light on the genre where good always wins. Katy is...
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Pre-Order Alert: Fall 2017
YA, urban fantasy, short fiction, biography and more — pre-order these six titles now to have them delivered as soon as they’re available!
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BANNED Books by Smithies
For Banned Books Week 2017, a collection of banned and challenged books written by Smith College alumnae including Jane Yolen and Madeleine L’Engle.
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Books By Sisters*: TERRIBLE VIRTUE by Ellen Feldman
In TERRIBLE VIRTUE, Bryn Mawr alumna Ellen Feldman presents the provocative and compelling story of Margaret Sanger, the woman whose lifelong mission to legalize contraception changed the world forever.
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