Susannah Greenberg Public Relations Presents:
The Year of the Woman in Books in 2018, 2019, and Beyond: The Success and Influence of Books For and By Women
A Panel At
05/31/2019, 1:30 PM - 2:10 PM 1E11, The Javits Center, New York, NY -- In 2018, we saw the amazing success of books for and by women, including books by Michelle Obama, Tayari Jones, Rebecca Traister, Soraya Chemaly, Jodi Picoult, Margaret Atwood, and more. This panel looks at the success of women in books in 2018, 2019, and beyond, and examines the proposition that this represents far more than just a year of the woman in books, but is in fact a radical shift in book publishing that is here to stay.
Moderator: SUSANNAH GREENBERG is
President of Susannah Greenberg Public Relations, (http://bookbuzz.com),
a book publicity firm. She is also the
Communications Chair and General Board Member of the, Women's Media Group; past
president and publicity chair of the Women's National Book Association - NYC;
and the U.S. Press Contact for the Jerusalem International Book Fair and
Jerusalem Prize. @suegreenbergpr 
HANNAH OLIVER DEPP is a career
bookseller who has managed WORD bookstores in Brooklyn, NY and Jersey City, NJ
and Politics & Prose in Washington, DC. She is currently opening Loyalty Bookstores, an intersectional feminist bookstore, cafe, and co-working space with
locations in Washington, DC and Silver Spring, MD. Oliver Depp is a founding
member of Indies Forward and the American Bookselling Association Committee on
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity, as well as a NAIBA regional Board Member. @OliverDepp
GLORY
EDIM (photo credit: Jai Lennard) is the author of an anthology, 'Well-Read Black
Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves,' from
Penguin Random House, and founder of Well-Read Black Girl, a Brooklyn-based
book club and digital platform that celebrates the uniqueness of Black
literature and sisterhood. In fall
2017, she organized the first-ever Well-Read Black Girl Festival. She has
worked as a creative strategist for over ten years at startups and cultural
institutions. Most recently, she was the Publishing outreach Specialist at
Kickstarter. She serves on the board of New York City’s Housing Works
Bookstore. @wellreadblkgirl
Her work has appeared
in Longreads, The Washington Post, The Los
Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Refinery29, Slice, The Paris Review Daily,
Tin House, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, Salon, Interview Magazine, Buzzfeed,
The Barnes & Noble Review, Poets & Writers, CNN.com, Fine Books & Collections Magazine, DAME Magazine, The Brooklyn
Quarterly, Time Out New York, People, The Daily Beast, O, The Oprah
Magazine, Men's Journal, Vulture, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Star
Tribune, The Quarterly Conversation,
The Brooklyn Rail, and other
publications.
She teaches creative nonfiction for The Sackett
Street Writers' Workshop, Catapult, and
Stanford Continuing Studies and is the founder of the Red Ink series. In 2016, Brooklyn Magazine named her one of "The 100 Most Influential
People in Brooklyn Culture." She’s a former board member of the National Book Critics Circle. @readandbreathe
HILLARY
KELLY is a critic and essayist. She's a contributor
to New York Magazine and Vulture, where she
writes about television, books, and the ways they intersect. She also covers
television for Vogue. She lives in Washington, D.C. @HillaryKelly
ERIKA SWYLER (photo credit: Nina Subin) is the author of ‘Light From Other Stars: A Novel’ from Bloomsbury, May 2019. Her first novel, ‘The Book of Speculation,’ was one of BuzzFeed's 24 Best Fiction Books
of 2015, one of Amazon's Best Novels of 2015, and a Barnes & Noble Discover
Great New Writers selection. Her writing has appeared in Catapult Story, VIDA,
The New York Times, and elsewhere. She lives on Long Island, NY, with her
husband and a mischievous rabbit. @erikaswyler
“It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?” ― Virginia Woolf
"I write my rage into paper and into bits and bytes. I write anger out of my head and my body and put it out in the world where, frankly, it belongs." – Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger
"Power is a story told by women. For centuries, men have colonized storytelling. That era is over." - Elena Ferrante
Related Pages:
Elena Ferrante: A Power of Our Own
Power is a story told by women. For centuries, men have colonized storytelling. That era is over.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/opinion/elena-ferrante-on-women-power.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur
Elena Ferrante: A Power of Our Own
Power is a story told by women. For centuries, men have colonized storytelling. That era is over.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/opinion/elena-ferrante-on-women-power.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur
Balance the books: one woman’s fight to keep
great female writers on shelves
The Second Shelf: On the Rules of Literary
Fiction for Men and Women. By MEG WOLITZER MARCH 30, 2012
In Fiction, It Was the Year of the Woman. Hillary Kelly,
Vulture.
https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/women-wrote-the-best-most-inventive-fiction-of-2018.html
https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/women-wrote-the-best-most-inventive-fiction-of-2018.html
What Do We Really Mean By ‘Women’s Fiction’?
https://lithub.com/what-do-we-really-mean-by-womens-fiction/
https://lithub.com/what-do-we-really-mean-by-womens-fiction/
On Playing the Nice Woman by Erika Swyler
http://www.vidaweb.org/on-playing-the-nice-woman/
Women Who Fight Back With Poetry
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2019/04/30/women-who-fight-back-poetry
Women Who Fight Back With Poetry
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2019/04/30/women-who-fight-back-poetry
-- Susannah Greenberg, President,
A Public Relations Agency Serving
Publishers, Authors, and the Book Industry
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