Leanne Phillips is a writer, a feminist, and a historian. Her work has appeared in Kelp Journal, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, The Coachella Review, Persimmon Tree, and elsewhere. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts (fiction) from the University of California at Riverside, Palm Desert. Leanne is the Books Editor for GXRL. She is a voting member of the National Book Critics Circle. She lives on California’s Central Coast where she spends her time working on her first novel, reading good books, and beachcombing.
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Book Review: The Art of Talking with Children by Rebecca Rolland, EdD
How do you talk to a kid who has fallen behind her peers in reading, or who just lost an important wrestling...
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Books: Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
The fourth book in Elizabeth Strout’s Amgash tetralogy is Lucy by the Sea, a third novel in the Lucy Barton series, written in first...
Books
Books: Oh, William by Elizabeth Strout
Oh, William is the third book in Elizabeth Strout’s Amgash tetralogy. It was preceded by a novel, My Name Is Lucy Barton, and a...
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Books
Books: Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
The fourth book in Elizabeth Strout’s Amgash tetralogy is Lucy by the Sea, a third novel in the Lucy Barton series, written in first...
Books
Books: Oh, William by Elizabeth Strout
Oh, William is the third book in Elizabeth Strout’s Amgash tetralogy. It was preceded by a novel, My Name Is Lucy Barton, and a...
Books
Books: Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
Anything Is Possible is the second book in Elizabeth Strout’s Amgash tetralogy, which consists of this book and three novels: My Name Is Lucy...
Books
Books: My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
My Name Is Lucy Barton is a novel and is the first book in what has become known as Elizabeth Strout’s Amgash tetralogy: a...
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Books: Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
I fell in love with Patti Smith’s music when I was nineteen. Her most widely known song, “Because the Night" from her 1978 album...
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Books: I Should Have Honor by Khalida Brohi
In her 2018 memoir I Should Have Honor, activist and social entrepreneur Khalida Brohi writes about growing up in a culture in which domestic...
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Books: The Waiting Is the Hardest Part: Agency in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Some years ago, I read an essay that criticizes the women in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for sitting around waiting for things to...
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Books: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Here I go again. Writing about a woman author who became nameless through no fault of her own. It’s kind of my thing, and...
Latest Posts
Books
Book Review: The Art of Talking with Children by Rebecca Rolland, EdD
How do you talk to a kid who has fallen behind her peers in reading, or who just lost an important wrestling...
Books
Books: Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
The fourth book in Elizabeth Strout’s Amgash tetralogy is Lucy by the Sea, a third novel in the Lucy Barton series, written in first...
Books
Books: Oh, William by Elizabeth Strout
Oh, William is the third book in Elizabeth Strout’s Amgash tetralogy. It was preceded by a novel, My Name Is Lucy Barton, and a...
Books
Books: Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
Anything Is Possible is the second book in Elizabeth Strout’s Amgash tetralogy, which consists of this book and three novels: My Name Is Lucy...