November staff picks pros: 📚 Thrilling 📚 Emotional 📚 Thought-provoking November staff picks cons: ⛔️ They aren’t on your TBR list (yet) Explore the collection here: apple.co/NovBestBooks

👀 in print next week, 11/25... newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Read Stephanie Gorton (she/her) on the novels that tell the history of the birth control movement. hnn.us/article/keep-h…

Rivalry between 2 key figures in the early movement for reproductive rights?! Watch #AfterWords, 'Stephanie Gorton, "The Icon and the Idealist - Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America"' on 11/24 at 8pm ET on #CSPAN2 :

The Icon & the Idealist on The New Yorker‘s best books list today newyorker.com/best-books-2024

This Little-Known Activist Transformed Repro Rights and Sex Ed in America teenvogue.visitlink.me/UTyTqb

Published today!

Free gift idea: a Rhode Island-based-nonfiction-authors-who-published-in-2024 box set. Featuring Kate Schapira, Lucas Mann, yours truly, and Stephanie Gorton (she/her).

“For women to seek a direct voice in public life meant calling into question all the received ideas about gender that then governed society and the state.” Stephanie Gorton (she/her) on systemic sexism in 19th century America. lithub.com/closer-to-a-pe…

dailykos.com/stories/2024/1…

just heard ICON is an Amazon Best Book of December and in the month's Best History list, i'll take it: amazon.com/gp/browse.html…

It’s time for 2024’s big finish! @bloomsburypub Ecco avonbooks @stmartinspress Alfred A. Knopf Gallery Books MacKids Books Soho Press @simonkids John Straley Stephanie Gorton (she/her) Ally Carter Julie Rowan-Zoch 🔻 #Medicare4All bookpage.com/?p=209426

nytimes.com/2024/12/12/boo…

“gripping” “riveting” “narrative nuance and scholarly acumen” Congrats to (RI-based) Stephanie Gorton (she/her) on this rave NYT review of "The Icon and the Idealist"! nytimes.com/2024/12/12/boo…

🎙️New Talk Nerdy Podcast 🎙🎧 is up! 🎙️ This week, I’m joined by writer & biographer — Stephanie Gorton. We discuss her newest book, “The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry that Brought Birth Control to America.” 🔗: carasantamaria.com/podcast/stepha…

Throughout 2024, these 12 biographies inspired us. Ecco Dey Street Books Farrar,Straus&Giroux Alfred A. Knopf @pantheonbooks @duttonbooks penguinpress Liveright Books W. W. Norton & Company @marinerbooks David L. Roll Stephanie Gorton (she/her) Henry Louis Gates Jr @TiyaMilesTAM Karen Valby Feeling Distant bookpage.com/?p=209850

These are 50 of 2024’s the best nonfiction books, including work by Aaron Robertson, Rebecca Nagle, Isabella Hammad, and more. lithub.com/lit-hubs-50-no…

What did you learn in 2024? If you’re curious about history, this year’s trending audiobooks offer fresh perspectives on everything from the Civil War to outer space. Add these compelling stories to your TBR. 🎧📚 apple.co/ABTrends

The judiciary has betrayed American women on abortion — contraception could be next, Stephanie Gorton (she/her) writes for #GlobeIdeas. trib.al/NF28jRr

We still have a long way to go to match Mary Ware Dennett’s simple, fundamental belief that women are people. trib.al/eheLBtv