Conversations with Authors - Michelle Bowdler (Virtual Event)
Sunday, August 9th • 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT
Michelle Bowdler
in conversation with Ayelet Waldman
Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different author.
Michelle Bowdler’s debut blend of memoir and cultural investigation, Is Rape a Crime?, tells the story of her rape and recovery while interrogating why one of society’s most serious crimes goes largely uninvestigated.
Michelle is a recipient of a 2017 Barbara Deming Memorial Award for non-fiction and has been a Fellow at Ragdale and MacDowell Colony. She has been published in the New York Times and in the anthologies The Anatomy of Silence and We Rise to Resist: Voices from a New Era in Women’s Political Action. Her essays Eventually You Tell Your Kids and Babelogue were both nominated for Pushcart Prizes.
Ayelet Waldman is the author of A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life, the novels Love & Treasure, Red Hook Road, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, and Daughter’s Keeper, as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace, and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She is the editor of Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons and of Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation.
Below, please find links to purchase their books.
Longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction
TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020
Publishers Weekly, Best Books of 2020
New York Times New & Noteworthy Audiobooks
Lit Hubs Most Anticipated Books of 2020
Starred Review Publishers Weekly
Starred Review Shelf Awareness
Before #MeToo, there was silence.
Let’s talk about that silence.
The Anatomy of Silence is a collection of voices speaking out loud - often for the first time - about what it means to stay silent, to be silenced, and to break the silence that surrounds sexual violence. About how we are all complicit in creating that silence.
ISBN: 9781476671642Availability: Special OrderPublished: McFarland & Company - February 19th, 2018"There are more seasons to come and there is more work to do," Hillary Clinton told her supporters following her surprising defeat in the 2016 presidential election. Taking her words to heart, on January 21, 2017, millions of women (and men) across America--opposing a president-elect many considered a misogynist--marched in protest.
$16.00ISBN: 9781101973721Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Anchor - January 9th, 2018“Relentlessly honest and surprisingly funny.” – The Washington Post
“Genuinely brave and human.” —The New York Times
“Wildly brilliant.” —Elle$16.95ISBN: 9780307739575Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Anchor - January 20th, 2015A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
An Oprah.com Best Book of the YearISBN: 9780307275820Availability: Special OrderPublished: Anchor - May 31st, 2011
A rich and rewarding story of love, loss, and the power of family from the bestselling author of Bad Mother and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits.
$16.95ISBN: 9781400095131Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Anchor - January 9th, 2007In this moving, wry, and candid novel, widely acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman takes us through one woman’s passage through love, loss, and the strange absurdities of modern life.Emilia Greenleaf believed that she had found her soulmate, the man she was meant to spend her life with.
ISBN: 9781402203138Availability: Special OrderPublished: Sourcebooks Landmark - October 1st, 2004How much would you sacrifice to save someone you love?
ISBN: 9780767930697Availability: Special OrderPublished: Anchor - May 4th, 2010In our mothers’ day there were good mothers, indifferent mothers, and occasionally, great mothers. Today we have only Bad Mothers: If you work, you’re neglectful; if you stay home, you’re smothering. If you discipline, you’re buying them a spot on the shrink’s couch; if you let them run wild, they will be into drugs by seventh grade.
$19.95ISBN: 9781786632289Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Verso - July 25th, 2017Inside This Place, Not of It reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States. Here, in their own words, thirteen narrators recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their harrowing struggle for survival once inside.
Among the narrators:
ISBN: 9780062431783Availability: Special OrderPublished: Harper Perennial - May 30th, 2017A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
ISBN: 9780425216392Availability: Special OrderPublished: Berkley - July 3rd, 2007A new arrival in the bestselling mystery series.
Private Investigators Juliet Applebaum and Al Hockey finally have a steady stream of clients coming through their garage-turned-office. But they'll realize it's no child's play tracking down the killer of a gorgeous transsexual's sister.ISBN: 9780425206171Availability: Special OrderPublished: Berkley - July 5th, 2006From the national bestselling author of Murder Plays House.
ISBN: 9780425198698Availability: Special OrderPublished: Berkley - July 5th, 2005Juliet Applebaum is a public defender turned stay-at-home mom—and a “highly likable sleuth” (Judith Kelman). Now in Murder Plays House, with a new arrival on the way, the Applebaum household is bursting at the seams. And Juliet is balancing clue-chasing and diaper-changing with a new task: house-hunting.
ISBN: 9780425197127Availability: Special OrderPublished: Berkley - June 1st, 2004Between juggling lunchboxes, piano lessons, and baby-sitters, public defender turned stay-at-home mom Juliet Applebaum promises to help her famous friend clear her brother's name of murder. But what will she do when she begins to suspect her friend may not be as innocent as she seems?
ISBN: 9780425191040Availability: Special OrderPublished: Berkley - July 1st, 2003From the national bestselling author of The Big Nap and Nursery Crimes.
In between planning playdates and playing dress up, Juliet finally gets some much-needed kid-free time, working out at the local health club. It’s going well. She’s losing weight. She’s even happy—until her personal trainer commits suicide.
ISBN: 9780425184523Availability: Special OrderPublished: Berkley - July 2nd, 2002Welcome back to the exasperating world of Juliet Applebaum, a public defender turned sleep-deprived stay-at-home mom—and “a unique, highly likable sleuth” (Judith Kelman).
ISBN: 9780425180006Availability: Special OrderPublished: Berkley - July 1st, 2001“Ayelet Waldman has given birth to a fresh new franchise with her Mommy-Track mysteries. Juliet Applebaum is smart, fearless, and completely candid about life as a full-time mom with a penchant for part-time detective work.”—Sue Grafton
