A special summer issue of The New York Bookwoman was released this month and featured book reviews by many of our chapter members. Here’s what our president, Jane Kinney-Denning, had to say about this issue: This is a special issue of The New York Bookwoman—an all book review edition, and…
Deirdre Bair was nominated for the prestigious Plutarch award for her recent book, Saul Steinberg: a Biography. Jane Kinney-Denning, WNBA-NYC president, interviewed John P. Stern, president of Storm King Art Center, the sculpture park in Mountainville, for Chronogram magazine. Read the interview here. Linda Epstein, literary agent and WNBA-NYC…
Talia Carner, author of Jerusalem Maiden, is expanding her reach and has accepted a speaking invitation in Paris, France in April and an appearance in Jerusalem in July. For details, please check her website, www.TaliaCarner.com Barbara Foster recently presented A Dangerous Woman: The Life, Loves, and Scandals of Adah Isaacs Menken to the New York…
Jessica Napp is our new Publicity Chair. Jessica is currently the Associate Director of Publicity for Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. She focuses on publicizing and marketing lifestyle books ranging from interior design and fashion, to cooking, photography, and pop culture. Over the years Jessica has held positions at Stewart, Tabori…
The New York Bookwoman, WNBA-NYC’s fantastic monthly newsletter, is looking for book reviewers! Not only do book reviewers receive a free book, they get some quality online exposure too. Most New York Bookwoman book reviews are also posted here on the blog, and there is a chance that your review…
Deirdre Bair is the critically acclaimed author of five award winning biographies. She received the National Book Award for Samuel Beckett: A Biography, and her biography of Simone de Beauvoir was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was chosen by The New York Times as one…
To the WNBA Community in the New York City area, I would like to extend my best wishes and prayers to all of you who have been impacted by Hurricane Sandy. It is a tragedy of unimaginable proportions and I know that many of your lives have been disrupted and…
This book review of The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin was written by Roz Reisner and originally published in the New York Bookwoman. At the turn of the twentieth century, William Talmadge lives in the Pacific Northwest tending the orchard he has lived in since childhood. He cherishes his quiet, almost…
It’s Time to Order Your Trick-or-Treat Boxes! By Nancy Stewart (WNBA UN DPI/NGO Second Alternate) The WNBA has a special partnership with UNICEF—the United Nations Children’s Fund. The WNBA has made it a priority to help this organization in its fundraising for the needs of children around the world. Our…
By Fatima Shaik This review of Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration was first published in the New York Bookwoman. My aunts and uncles went to Chicago and New York in the 1940s but returned home to New Orleans. Cousins went North…
