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PAIGE’S KIDS HAVE fewer than four weeks left of school. That means summer, and summer means lots of goodness: balmy weather, barbecue, and best of all, beach reading. She’s already starting to pack, or at least pick, her summer reading list, and it’s full of sisterly reads, and some surprises. Come read along.
WHO ARE YOUR all-time favorite women writers? This is the question on deck. While Marion is handling all things nonfiction, Anastasia wants to hear your picks for favorite female poetesses and fictioneers, and she’s starting off her list with an unexpected name. (Hint: she’s pictured to the left.) Read the full story.
By Anastasia Smith
I AM LUCKY ENOUGH to have become good friends here at graduate school with a bonified Jane Austen nerd. (Hello, former English majors!) When I am a mess over school or weepy about love sagas, this friend of mine always listens to my gripes and then pauses thoughtfully, before saying something to the effect of: “It sounds like you need some more Jane in your life.” (Yes, this is her proposed remedy for everything.) Read on.
WE’RE ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT for great books about sisterhood. (We’ve been compiling this reading list over the years.) So our ears pricked up when we recently heard about Eleanor Brown’s debut novel The Weird Sisters. What makes this new novel look so intriguing? (Aside from the fantastic allusion to the Macbeth witches in the book’s title, of course) [click to continue…]
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By Marion Roach Smith
READ UP, SISTERS! Publishing is not dead, it’s merely getting more fabulous. At least that’s how things look now that we’ve discovered Paris Press, the not-for-profit press that publishes “important work by women writers that has been overlooked by the literary and publishing worlds.” Though Paris Press was founded in 1995, it became known to us because of their new book, Sisters. A collection of marvelous authors writing on our favorite topic, this is the single book that all of us must read. [click to continue…]
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LIKE WE ALWAYS SAY: If you want to be a better sister, read. So we’ve updated and consolidated our recommendations for a booklist for sisters–fiction and non-fiction alike. Please add suggested additions in the comments space, so that with your help, the list of great books for sisters (which is right here) can grow.
IN THE GALLERIES: Paintings by Amanda Blake
First time here? Here's the idea: TSP is a network of blogs about the many facets of the word sister, and the concept of sisterhood. A sisterhood of sister blogs, you could say. Whatever sister means to you, from identical twin to sister-in-law (or in-friendship or in-feminism), we’ll make room to listen in about it or express it on TSP. Like the slogan up top says, “Don’t you have something to say to your sister?” We've got galleries of art and literature by and about sisters, and a Sisterpedia of sisterly trivia...but now we're getting ahead of ourselves. The quick study: Learn more about TSP, and how to find your way around. And oh—a giant, sisterly welcome.
As the suffix of its name suggests, TSP's Sisterpedia
is the reference section, one we’re hoping you’ll help us grow to maturity by adding your knowledge in the comments. Turn us on to new facts and figures, whether for the branch of our ‘library’ called Sistory (history from a sister point of view, from the Muses of ancient Greece to 60s Girl Groups and beyond) or the one called Sibling Science (what makes sisters tick, genetically and behaviorally). Or just click around and have a good read. See you there. 
No surprise, really, that sisterhood, often life’s longest relationship and always one of its most important, has been the Muse for so much creative self-expression by women, and also by men.
TSP’s Galleries were created to show off that outpouring of art and craft, poetry and prose. Come see a show or two—no ticket required, no lines to get in—and suggest others whose work we ought to showcase.
