Women’s History Month 2023—Events

Check out the Events page for information about readings and signings tied to the paperback release of Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s “Girl Stunt Reporters” on March 21, 2023. Fortuitously, this is in the middle of Women’s History Month, the perfect time to be celebrating intrepid female journalists from the nineteenth century. In-person events will take place at Mrs. Dalloway’s in Berkeley on March 29, Elliott Bay Books in Seattle in March 30, and Village Books in Bellingham on March 31.

If you are interested in the role of “girl stunt reporters” in the history of, not just journalism, but creative nonfiction, check out the interview “Who Created Creative Nonfiction?” at Essay Daily. Rachel May, author of An American Quilt: Unfolding a Story of Family and Slavery and an associate professor at Northern Michigan, and I had a wide-ranging discussion about, among other things, what Tom Wolfe and Truman Capote owe Nellie Bly.