Author of Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music
with Allison Wolfe of Bratmobile
and Denise Oswald, editor and director of Soft Skull Press
The early nineties was the time of the riot grrl. Girls across the country put down gender roles and classic feminist critiques, and picked up instruments, zines, and revolutionary politics. For years the best bands were almost exclusively girl bands.
Author Marisa Meltzer is the coauthor of How Sassy Changed My Life (Faber, 2007). Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Elle, and Teen Vogue. She lives in Brooklyn. She'll be here with the legendary Allison Wolfe of Bratmobile and editor Denise Oswald to talk about the book, the music and the movement.
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Michael Palmer is a poet of excellent range and precision, but these collected essays and lectures feel more like my dream of pub chatter; they're erudite, impassioned, and unfailingly interesting, but also a bit rambling. His insights may be brilliant, but leave an audience with the suspicion that they have no use beyond this one night in this shadowed bar. Naturally, I loved each one.
La Maison Du Chocolat
Written by Cheryl
By Gilles Marchal (Stewart, Tabori, Chang, $40.00)
There is chocolate, and then there is CHOCOLATE. The famous Parisian chocolate shop, La Maison du Chocolate, produces the most divine dark CHOCOLATE as well as the most extraordinary sorbet. Now Gilles Marchal, who has recently taken over the helm of this insitution, has produced the CHOCOLATE cookbook. Not only will you learn how to make black and white cookies and divine chocolate mousse, you will learn how to make chocolate fettucine and chocolate handbags. And, of course, the layout and the photographs are divine.
Year Million
Written by Stewart
Edited By Damien Broderick (Atlas & Co., $16.00)
To realize that life and time will continue without us can be a humbling affair. Fifteen brilliant minds contribute to thinking about the future. The very, very, very far future. Strap on your seatbelt, for it's gonna be a beautiful ruckus (at least, in humbling theories).
Michael Palmer is a poet of excellent range and precision, but these collected essays and lectures feel more like my dream of pub chatter; they're erudite, impassioned, and unfailingly interesting, but also a bit rambling. His insights may be brilliant, but leave an audience with the suspicion that they have no use beyond this one night in this shadowed bar. Naturally, I loved each one.
There is chocolate, and then there is CHOCOLATE. The famous Parisian chocolate shop, La Maison du Chocolate, produces the most divine dark CHOCOLATE as well as the most extraordinary sorbet. Now Gilles Marchal, who has recently taken over the helm of this insitution, has produced the CHOCOLATE cookbook. Not only will you learn how to make black and white cookies and divine chocolate mousse, you will learn how to make chocolate fettucine and chocolate handbags. And, of course, the layout and the photographs are divine.
To realize that life and time will continue without us can be a humbling affair. Fifteen brilliant minds contribute to thinking about the future. The very, very, very far future. Strap on your seatbelt, for it's gonna be a beautiful ruckus (at least, in humbling theories).