100 years ago today in 1925, Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska was published for the first time! ⁣

"Before Romeo and Juliet, there was Khosrow and Shirin." —
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NEW TO PENGUIN CLASSICS: Khosrow and Shirin, a tragic epic love story by Nezami Ganjavi, one of the greatest medieval Persian romance poets, translated by Dick Davis! 👉 bit.ly/3ROgN9s

Celebrate 100 years of The Great Gatsby! Our new centennial edition of one of the most iconic American novels features an introduction by Min Jin Lee and includes four beloved stories from Fitzgerald’s 1926 collection, All the Sad Young Men!

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Cover of the Portable Feminist Reader edited by Roxane Gay. The image is a graphic of women of different ethnicities in a Cubism style, with a green, white and pink background.

"The Portable Feminist Reader" is essential reading. All women are not yet free, but in this sweeping intersectional collection, @roxanegay.bsky.social reminds us that feminists have the collective power to create a more inclusive & equitable future. More in my @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social review.

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"No list about Guatemalan writers would be complete without mentioning an Asturias book... [Men of Maize] tells the stories of what it means when one culture attempts and succeeds to impose itself upon the other." (via @electricliterature.com)

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A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel, translated from the Spanish by Gwendolyn Harper, is the winner of the NBCC Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize!

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The Audiobook of 12 STORIES is now available! Here's a free preview of me reading the introduction, but the real treat here are the professional voice actors' interpretations of these stories @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social calls "iconic" 😉

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The cover of Twelve Stories by American Women, edited with an introduction by Arielle Zibrak

The Table of Contents of Twelve Stories by American Women: INTRODUCTION 4 A NOTE ON THE TEXT 26 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 27 1.“CACOETHES SCRIBENDI” BY CATHARINE MARIA SEDGWICK, 1830 31 2.“THE TWO OFFERS” BY FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER, 1859 41 3. “LIFE IN THE IRON-MILLS” BY REBECCA HARDING DAVIS, 1861 48 4. “A WHITE HERON” BY SARAH ORNE JEWETT, 1886 72 5.“THE YELLOW WALL-PAPER” BY CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, 1892 79 6.“THE LITTLE ROOM” BY MADELENE YALE WYNNE, 1895 92 7. “THE NEW WOMAN” BY BARBARA E. POPE, 1896 100 8.“SOULS BELATED” BY EDITH WHARTON, 1899 105 9.“MRS. SPRING FRAGRANCE” BY SUI SIN FAR, 1912 123 10.“THE VINE LEAF” BY MARÍA CRISTINA MENA, 1914 131 11.“THE WIDESPREAD ENIGMA CONCERNING BLUE-STAR WOMAN” BY ZITKÁLA-ŠÁ, 1921 136 12. “SWEAT” BY ZORA NEALE HURSTON, 1926 143  

The Table of Contents of Twelve Stories by American Women: INTRODUCTION 4 A NOTE ON THE TEXT 26 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 27 1.“CACOETHES SCRIBENDI” BY CATHARINE MARIA SEDGWICK, 1830 31 2.“THE TWO OFFERS” BY FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER, 1859 41 3. “LIFE IN THE IRON-MILLS” BY REBECCA HARDING DAVIS, 1861 48 4. “A WHITE HERON” BY SARAH ORNE JEWETT, 1886 72 5.“THE YELLOW WALL-PAPER” BY CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, 1892 79 6.“THE LITTLE ROOM” BY MADELENE YALE WYNNE, 1895 92 7. “THE NEW WOMAN” BY BARBARA E. POPE, 1896 100 8.“SOULS BELATED” BY EDITH WHARTON, 1899 105 9.“MRS. SPRING FRAGRANCE” BY SUI SIN FAR, 1912 123 10.“THE VINE LEAF” BY MARÍA CRISTINA MENA, 1914 131 11.“THE WIDESPREAD ENIGMA CONCERNING BLUE-STAR WOMAN” BY ZITKÁLA-ŠÁ, 1921 136 12. “SWEAT” BY ZORA NEALE HURSTON, 1926 143  

Next week is pub week for 12 STORIES BY AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social and I'm doing a GIVEAWAY for Blueskyers!

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Please read & share these stories!

New to Penguin Classics: Abortion Stories, a one-of-a-kind, intersectional volume of stories, poems, essays, and memoirs on abortion published before 1973, when Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in every American state.

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TONIGHT! 📅 Join Karen Weingarten, Rebecca Traister, and Renee Bracy Sherman for a conversation about Abortion Stories, a new volume from Penguin Classics!

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New to Penguin Classics: Steppenwolf, Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s iconic countercultural novel about the search for authenticity in an inauthentic world, in a new translation by David Horrocks!

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Featuring luminaries Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucile Clifton and more, Abortion Stories shows how access to abortion is often race and class dependent, and argues for the necessity of legal and accessible abortion.

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New to Penguin Classics: Abortion Stories, a one-of-a-kind, intersectional volume of stories, poems, essays, and memoirs on abortion published before 1973, when Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in every American state.

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Sharing a stack of black spines by Black authors to add to your TBR this #BlackHistoryMonth!

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📆 MARK YOU CALENDARS 📆 Join Roxane Gay on tour for The Portable Feminist Reader, a feminist canon of selected writings by ancient, historic, and contemporary feminist voices edited by Roxane Gay!

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New to Penguin Classics: Claude McKay's most well-known Harlem Renaissance novel and the first commercial bestseller by a Black novelist in the United States, Home to Harlem, featuring an introduction by literary history scholar Belinda Edmondson!

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New to Penguin Classics: Clay Walls by Kim Ronyoung, a landmark modern classic about the Korean American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles’s Koreatown, featuring an introduction by David S. Cho. ⁣
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth, readers! We’re kicking things off by revisiting Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes, who was born on this day in 1902.

Which classics by Black authors are you planning to read this month? 📖

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Penguin Classics Black Spine Edition

“Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, which was published #onthisday in 1813 🌾

It's very nice to be anticipated! Pleased to be in the excellent company of The Millions' other picks for new pubs, which make me almost excited for 2025.

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