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The Student Voice of Fordham Lincoln Center

The Observer

BRIANNA GOODMAN, Copy Editor Emerita

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Rebecca Traister held a launch party for her new novel at Greenlight Bookstore on March 2. (PHOTO BY BRIANNA GOODMAN/THE OBSERVER)

(You Don’t Have To) Put a Ring On It

March 19, 2016
“I always hated it when my heroines got married,” Rebecca Traister begins in her thorough new book, “All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation.”
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Benign

March 8, 2016
There will be drawers full of cupped lace that you’ll never have to open.
Idra Novey at her book launch of "Ways to Disappear". (PHOTO COURTESY OF PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY VIA FLICKR)

A Brazilian Novelist on the Run

March 2, 2016
A round woman bearing a cigar and a suitcase climbs up an almond tree and promptly disappears. This is the premise for Idra Novey’s debut novel, “Ways to Disappear.”
Books are stacked under the African American section of the bookstore. (PHOTO BY JESSICA HANLEY/ THE OBSERVER)

Black History Month Must-Reads

February 15, 2016
February is Black History Month, and as is true with the other 11 months of the year, it is a wonderful time to dive into the literary works of black writers addressing race in America.
A guitar, a piano, and the voice of a man who is near death. (VIA FLICKR)

So Lonesome

November 9, 2015
Its honesty demanded my honesty, and I found that notion to be both beautiful and terrifying.
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