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Des Moines Public Library is celebrating women's authors in March

Anna Cafolla provides a taster of the fiction and non-fiction coming your way this year

Crucial meet begins Sunday in Glasgow: 100% efforts towards climate justice required to reach ‘net zero’ by 2050

Photo: Eszter+David What makes Liz Phair heroic to some and intimidating to others (those who deserve it, let’s say) is her ability to pierce the emotional heart of a situation. At her best, a good Liz Phair lyric goes beyond cutting through bullshit into the type of earth-shaking insight that leaves you speechless. Of course, being “real” and a “truth teller” can be a trap, as Phair knows better than almost anybody: The Cassandra of the ’90s Chicago alt-rock scene has spent the past couple of decades experimenting with her image, and has been pilloried for it by critics. Too na...

ONLINE: A Celebration of Queer Voices May 10, 2021 6:30 PM press release: A Room of One's Own, Noemi Press, and Lambda Literary present a virtual reading to celebrate queer voices, featuring authors Melissa Febos, Khalisa Rae, Melissa Faliveno, Emilia Phillips, Raquel Gutiérrez, Sofia Fey, and Ashley Elizabeth Evans. This Crowdcast event will be emcee'd by Suzi F. Garcia. Khalisa Rae is a poet and journalist in Durham, North Carolina, that speaks with furious rebellion. She is the author of Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat (Red Hen Press 2021). Her essays are featured in Autostraddle, Catap...