worked at GARAGE and LAist and has freelanced for outlets including The Hairpin, Bon Appetit, them, the Hollywood Reporter and more. Her first book is More Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing and the Lust for ‘Enough’.
Specter lives in Los Angeles. In her spare time, she shops for vintage purses and bakes a lot of bagels.
For Vogue she and her colleagues tagged thirteen feminist books that deserve a place on your nightstand. One title on the list:
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (2019)Read about another entry on the list.
It may be surprising to see fiction on this list, but Evaristo’s skill at portraying 12 very different protagonists in this Booker Prize–winning novel, which spans decades’ worth of race, class, gender, and sexuality-based identity, more than deserves some good old-fashioned feminist acclaim.
Girl, Woman, Other is among Sarah Davis-Goff's six top books about women working together, Ore Agbaje-Williams's seven books featuring very, very complicated friendships, Cecile Pin's seven novels featuring displacement in multicultural London, and Kasim Ali's nine top books about interracial relationships.
--Marshal Zeringue
Posts
