This week, I interviewed @peltzmadeline.bsky.social about the far-right online, Charlie Kirk and young women and her identity as an anti-Zionist Jew 🧡 amyhoggart.substack.com/p/madeline-p... Subscribe for free weekly chats with interesting people on the Left!

#NewReleaseTuesday continues with more great picks~ #booksky💙📚

I narrated the audiobook for my #chicken book UNDER THE HENFLUENCE. Readers have said: It’s like hanging out with me for seven hours! (complimentary) It’s like hanging out with me for seven hours! (pejorative) #booksky

me: oh god i have to write about paninis. how unspeakably dull me after five seconds of research: you WHAT. what?! buttondown.com/theswordandt...

I have the absolute best readers in the world. My thanks to everyone who helped make this happen.

In this excerpt from her book 'Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom,' author Rebecca Grant details the many ways activists moved to protect abortion access in the months immediately after Roe v. Wade was overturned on June 24, 2022. Read here ⤵️

Gotta love a cover reveal for ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY! Contributing editor @rebb003.bsky.social introduced the cover for MY PARENTS ARE DEAD: WHAT NOW? A PANIC-FREE GUIDE TO THE PRACTICALITIES OF DEATH. Out Jan 6, 2026: buff.ly/IfZjmhn

An excerpt from the book Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom, by Rebecca Grant. It chronicles activists’ decades-long mission to defy abortion restrictions and fight for reproductive freedom around the world.

New York friends, please join me and Rebecca Grant in NYC on June 25 for a discussion of her new book, Access! communitybookstore.net/events/46572

📚 Book Tour Dates ✈️ New York! DC! Portland! I’ll be doing in-person bookstore events to celebrate the release of Access over the next couple weeks. Come say hello, grab a signed copy, and listen to me discuss the book with some amazing fellow repro journalists ✨ Full schedule below 👇

Happy Publication Day to @rebeccaggrant.bsky.social's ACCESS!! Get your copy of this essential book about the underground activist networks fighting to protect bodily autonomy. Excerpt below!

@prismreports.org repost: "Every immigration raid is a tragedy in slow motion, ripping out the bedrock of a place & plundering the community. ICE raids in Los Angeles are a declaration of war, & Angelenos are primed for battle, ‪ @tinavasquez.bsky.social ‬ writes. prismreports.org/2025/06/09/l...

For our free post this month, we have @tinavasquez.bsky.social's on the ground report about the first 55+ LGBTQ cohousing community in the country and the unique hurdles LGBTQ elders suffer: theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/take-care-...

so.... i have some big awesome news that i am so excited to share!!!!! i am going to write a book about sandwiches!!!!!!!!

Happy Juneteenth! @freeblackgirl.bsky.social‬'s meditation on Ryan Coogler's Sinners and its devotion to Black intimacies is something you NEED to read today:

Book 26 of 2025: HOW TO TELL WHEN WE WILL DIE by Johanna Hedva. A book of disability-centered essays that is gross and punk and lively and philosophical and kinky and sometimes sad but never tragic. A very good read. 📚👀

This case will be familiar to those of you who have read "Murder the Truth" -- there's a whole chapter on these attacks, which are part of a broader campaign to intimidate and punish journalists who investigate rich and powerful people. www.harpercollins.com/products/mur...

Immediately put American Bulk on my @bklynlibrary.bsky.social hold list after reading this interview

This week on The Female Body Politic, I’m joined by financial journalist, broadcaster, and author of WOMEN MONEY POWER, @josiecox.bsky.social Tune in as we explore the roots and impact of gender-based financial inequality through the lens of her groundbreaking book.

The Mexican flag has been used in LA protests to make clear who the community belongs to. Here's @tinavasquez.bsky.social for The Flytrap about the proliferation of Mexican flags in her neighborhood in North Carolina as resistance to anti-immigrant policies. theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/the-quiet-...

"Superb. . . Some novels announce themselves with virtuosic plotting or language, headline-worthy conceits, Big Ideas. This is not one of them, and it’s better for it.” Read the @nytimes.com's review of GINGKO SEASON and pick up the book now! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b...

They strove to ensure they were all not just surviving, but thriving. These woman revolutionized the field of physics when all odds were stacked against them, and went on to inspire young women to do the same. Read the full story in SISTERS IN SCIENCE. bookshop.org/p/books/sist...

I was so warmly welcomed to Salone Internazionale del Libro by my publisher Aboca Edizioni. My talk was packed. Aboca's area was the star of the fair: A living forest fed by water underneath a built wooden floor and benches. I can't describe how good it smelled. A hidden oasis. My books sold out!

My latest for @msmagazine.com on Katharine Dexter McCormick, who used her fortune and fierce determination to quietly bankroll one of the most revolutionary inventions in women’s history: the birth control pill. msmagazine.com/2025/05/08/k...

I just listened to the Culture Study podcast episode about this book, highly recommend it. Tove speaks with a lot of nuance and the motivations of people interested in backyard chickens and farming, as well as how it's often used as propaganda, but also what the idealization says about our culture.

I was so excited to get to include photos in this book!

50,000 copies and counting. Four starred reviews. Longlisted for a National Book Award. Coretta Scott King honor book. Lifting As We Climb, my ode to the rich history of Black women’s activism, is 5 today! I am forever grateful I got to help excavate this overlooked history. 🫶🏾

Spotted: Naomi Xu Elegant's GINGKO SEASON in NYT's May roundup of books: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

For all my paperback readers out there, SHADOW OF DOUBT hits shelves today in paperback. Enjoy! bradthor.com/book/shadow-...

Check out this excerpt from Scot Harvath's newest adventure - EDGE OF HONOR, hitting stores July 1st. bradthor.com/book/edge-of...

For @bloomberg.com I explored the "paternity leave paradox." New dads aren't taking parental leave even though *loads* of data and research show that paternity leave is good for baby, good for dad, good for mom, good for employers and for good for society at large. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

i wrote about muffulettas, and why it's important to cling to joy in this rough time even when it is very hard!!!! buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Emily Mester & I talked about craft, class, & her excellent debut essay collection, AMERICAN BULK. "When you make someone you love into a character, it’s very scary whether people are going to see them as you see them. Sometimes people you love do bad stuff." chicagoreader.com/books/lit-fe...

I am so glad I read this book back in December. It explains so clearly how and why we are where we are.

Cheers to the LibraryReads Top Pick for May 2025: THE MISSING HALF: A NOVEL by Ashley Flowers with Alex Kiester! @prhlibrary.bsky.social

I loved Katy Hays' THE CLOISTERS, and SALTWATER is a more than worthy follow up. It's always great chatting with her-- thanks @prhlibrary.bsky.social!

What are you reading going into the weekend? 📚💙 I'm taking myself off to Capri with #SaltWater - but based on the first few pages, I don't think it's going to be a relaxing time basking in the sun! ⚡️📚

The author's narration for the audiobook makes it really engaging even while you're thinking, Oh god, why, this is awful, why didn't we stop these horrible people

Journey to where it all began and join wildlife biologist Alex Carter as she searches for elusive wolverines in Montana and finds herself in a deadly situation out in the wilderness. #wolverines #montana #wildlifeconservation #thriller

Trump’s executive order on elections may prevent millions from being able to vote, including married people, those who’ve transitioned genders, and people born during segregation, reports @josiecox.bsky.social: www.thepersistent.com/voting-right...

The stories about World War II that shine a light on women rarely mention women of color. Read our Q&A from @josiecox.bsky.social with the actor Ebony Obsidian who starred in Tyler Perry’s 2024 film ‘The Six Triple Eight’.

New — I chatted with NYT’s @davidenrich.bsky.social about his new book, the tension between independent and traditional journalism, the public perception of the Times, and the real and present threats to press freedom. Our convo and the book are both well worth a read:

Right now the e-book of A Blizzard of Polar Bears is on sale for only $1.99 on Kobo, Nook, Kindle, Google Play, and Apple Books! In it, wildlife biologist Alex Carter faces danger out on the Arctic ice when someone proves willing to kill to stop her polar bear research.

Today's book mail part 2. A copy of The Vipers by Katy Hays. Love the foil on the blackboard, endpapers and the sprayed edges.

SALTWATER by Katy Hays is out today! I really enjoyed this tangled tale; while I called one “twist” early on, I audibly gasped at another reveal! Thanks to @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social for the ARC via @netgalley.bsky.social. ⚡️📚💙

Enormous congratulations to Katy Hays on the publication day of SALTWATER, the book that @publisherswkly.bsky.social calls a "masterful suspense story" that "has all the momentum of a runaway train"!!! Get this pink beauty wherever books are sold: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/763905...

You can listen to the Prologue of “Murder the Truth” courtesy of @nytimes.com — check it out! www.nytimes.com/audio/app/20...

Congratulations on another bestseller, @davidenrich.bsky.social!!! 🥂🎉 If you haven't yet, go get your copy of MURDER THE TRUTH!