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SheReads: Toni: Reader, Writer, Sewer

SheReads looks at the reading lists of cool chicks. If you want to be featured, send an email to uptown.literati@gmail.com.

Feminista by Erica Kennedy

“At first glance, you might think this is another chick-lit book, but upon closer inspection you realize this is much more. The main character, Sydney, already has it all: a well-paying seemingly [...]

Lifestyle Gumbo: No Bookshelf, No Problem

Julia Roitfeld, a New York socialite who happens to be the daughter of French Vogue‘s editrix, is featured on photographer Todd Selby’s site, The Selby. Among her other treasures, the photog snapped her books, which are stacked neatly on the floor, no bookshelf needed.

– Whitney Teal

Oh Snap!: Subway Silence

One more for the fly bookworms. Our favorite feminista Erica Kennedy found this young woman entirely engrossed in Sapphire’s novel turned award-winning film adaption of Push .

– Nicole Crowder

Photo: The Feminista Files

Lifestyle Gumbo: No Bookshelf, No Problem

Julia Roitfeld, a New York socialite who happens to be the daughter of French Vogue‘s editrix, is featured on photographer Todd Selby’s site, The Selby. Among her other treasures, the photog snapped her books, which are stacked neatly on the floor, no bookshelf needed.

– Whitney Teal

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Tell us in this Uptown Literati Survey! Answer any or all of the questions, then leave other remarks in the comments section.

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Oh Snap!: The How To Make A Bibliophile Hyperventilate Version

Water, water, everywhere….

–Samantha Tungul

Photo: strollerderby

The Teacher’s Lounge: Dr. Carol Pippen

The Teacher’s Lounge eavesdrops on professors from various disciplines at universities across the country to find out what they’re reading when they’re not assigning you 12-page dissertations…due in two weeks.

Dr. Carol Pippen is a professor at Towson University and a scholar on Jane Austen. She supervises the ESOL (English Speakers of Other Languages) Writing [...]

Oh Snap! Rub a Dub Dub

…who’s reading in the tub?

–Nicole Crowder

Photo: Fuckyeahindiegirls

Oh Snap!: Rub a Dub Dub…

…who’s reading in the tub?

–Nicole Crowder

Photo: Fuckyeahindiegirls