E. Ce Miller
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E. Ce Miller is a writer, reader, activist, feminist, and yoga instructor, usually in desperate need of a hairbrush. Currently she writes about books for Bustle, and has been a writing mentor for the PEN America Prison Writing Program and the Afghan Women's Writing Project. Her words have appeared in Culture Trip, Midwestern Gothic, Sixfold Journal, The Sun Magazine, and more.

Just 14 Of The 114 Nobel Laureates In Literature Are Women

The Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded twice this year, following a sexual assault scandal within the Swedish Academy that resulted the postponement of last year's award. Now, myself and many other readers are wondering: Will either (or…
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A New Book Proves How Shockingly Sexist Everything Is — From Healthcare To Smartphones

Ever wondered why you always have to keep a spare cardigan in your office, even on days when your male colleagues are comfortable in short sleeved polos? Or how about why the headrest in your automobile never seems to land in quite the right spot,…
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This Book Will Help You Make Sense Of One Of The Most Controversial Feminist Writers Ever

Andrea Dworkin is still misunderstood. To quote Gloria Steinem, "Hardly anybody is as misunderstood as Andrea." But now, a new anthology of her work aims to put the incendiary ideas that Dworkin became known for — her antipornography activism, her…
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A New Anthology Will Totally Change Your P.O.V. On The History Of Women's Suffrage

The 19th amendment turns 100-years-old next August. But women were voting in the United States over a thousand years before the 19th amendment was signed into law. In fact, women have not only been participants in the democratic process, but…
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How 'Pride & Prejudice' Gives Authors A Foundation To Write About Diverse Experiences

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is a story that’s been told, and retold, over and over again. The plot is a classic: girl meets boy, boy meets girl, strong personalities reveal themselves as opposites attract and reject (and attract and reject)…
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What It's Like To Write Your Second Novel Entirely By Hand, According To Ethel Rohan

Ethel Rohan's first novel, The Weight of Him, which came out in 2017, is one I haven’t been able to forget. I’ve eagerly kept an eye out for news of her next novel, but as it turns out, I may have to wait a bit longer. Rohan’s second novel is on the…
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Looking Back On The "Words Of The Year' Can Tell Us A Lot About American Culture

From Oktoberfest and Kindergarten to Krampus and Heidi Klum, America’s borrowings from German culture are numbered and diverse, but I bet you didn’t know that Word of the Year — the annual tradition of highlighting the single term most illustrative…
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I KonMari'd My 1,127-Book Library — And Let Go Of A Lot More Than Books

I definitely arrived late to the Marie Kondo party. By the time I got around to reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Kondo’s book had already made waves with clutter-lovers and minimalists alike, the buzz had died down, the book had become…
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21 Valentine's Day Poems Guaranteed To Give You Butterflies

How do I love thee, Bustle reader? As much as I love watching a sunset; taking a long walk on the beach; petting a dog? As much as I love when Starbucks accidentally puts whipped cream on my Frappuccino, as though they knew I secretly really did…
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This Author Is Back With Her First Novel In 18 Years — About An All-Female Bowling Alley

When Bertha Truitt’s body is found in the Salford Cemetery — above ground, alive — no one, including Bertha, knows how she got there. When asked what she was doing, sleeping on the frozen grass beneath the Pickersgills family obelisk, she simply…
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How Author Soniah Kamal Retold 'Pride & Prejudice' In Modern Day Pakistan

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single reader in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a Pride and Prejudice retelling. At least, that certainly seems to be the case. From Bridget Jones’s Diary to Pride and Prejudice and…
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A New Memoir Demonstrates Just How Much Work It Takes To Be Poor In America

Growing up, when Stephanie Land thought about her future, poverty was the furthest possibility. “Inconceivable, so far away from my reality” she writes, in her debut memoir, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and A Mother’s Will To Survive. “I never thought…
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12 Mary Oliver Poems That You Will Never Be Able To Forget

National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Mary Oliver died Thursday, at age 83. If you know Mary Oliver’s writing, you probably know "The Kingfisher." I don’t know what it is, exactly, about this particular poem. In the scope of a…
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Is Reading More Poetry One Of Your Goals For 2019? Here's How To Begin

So, you’ve heard that poetry is making a comeback (I mean, isn’t it always?) and you’re thinking it might be time for you to hop aboard that well-versed bandwagon. After all, everyone’s reading life could use a little shake-up now and again, and…
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How Rabeah Ghaffari's Family History Inspired Her Novel, Set Amid The Iranian Revolution

“There’s a joke that came out in Iran after the revolution that goes something like this: Before the revolution we prayed in our homes and drank in the streets. After the revolution we drink in our homes and pray in the streets,” Rabeah Ghaffari,…
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This New Book Imagines A World Where Toxic Masculinity Is An Actual Toxin

On a remote island off the coast of an unspecified continent, three sisters — Grace, Lia, and Sky — are hidden away from the world. It's a world where the water is poisoned, the air is polluted, and men are literally toxic. Their home, a large,…
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It's No Surprise That Female-Centered Dystopian Novels Are So Popular — Here's 5 To Read

From The Handmaid’s Tale to Parable of the Sower, Before She Sleeps to Vox, female-centered dystopian fiction has been giving voice to women’s greatest rage — and deepest fears — for decades. But while the genre has been in print for generations…
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I'm Only Making One Reading Resolution In 2019 — Here's Why You Should Join Me

I am someone who loves New Year’s resolutions. I live for fresh calendars and orderly to-do lists, goal setting, and bucket list drafting, reading resolutions and brand new TBR piles. Every year, I look forward to the glittery sense of hopeful…
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Here's How Goodreads #1 Most Popular Reviewer Hits Her Reading Goal Every Year

One day, Emily May will finish In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust’s seven volume, 4,215-page classic novel of modern literature. In the meantime, May, the most popular reviewer on Goodreads — with nearly 150,000 followers, 1500 reviews (and…
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Desperate For More Work/Life Balance? These 10 Books Can Help

I don’t know about you, but I am someone who could use a whole lot more balance in my life — between working, mothering, writing, being a partner and a daughter and a sister and a friend, keeping up with the news, folding the laundry (sorta) and…
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