…after being held up in customs for over 10 days. The cover is both matte and shiny at the same time.
Being Together Precedes Being
A lovely collection of essays and images from a 2016 exhibition called “The Kids Want Communism.” I’ll be speaking at an event in celebration of the book on November 5th together with Joshua Simon, Malcolm Harris, and Marissa Brostoff.
The Polish cover
The mock-up of the paperback cover
This is what the whole paperback cover will look like when the book is relaunched in March. I love the little red rose on the spine.
Interview in El Diario (en Español) →
Thanks so much to Mónica Zas for her great interview questions.
Spotted in South Station in Boston in the Non-fiction section of the book kiosk
The Spanish Cover of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
Coming in November from Captain Swing Libros in Spain: Por qué las mujeres disfrutan más del sexo bajo el socialismo. Y otros argumentos a favor de la independencia económica'
A new cover for the Dutch version
I’m so thrilled for the Dutch translation of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism or "Waarom vrouwen betere seks hebben onder het socialisme,” and love their cover redesign.
The British paperback has been launched! →
So happy that Vintage paperbacks did such a wonderful job with the paperback version of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence.
Rereading Good Omens after 29 years
I have my first edition of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s book, Good Omens, which I read when it first came out in 1990. Now there is a new miniseries coming out on May 31st (starring my favorite Doctor, David Tenant), and I decided to go back and reread it just for fun. I powered through it in one sitting.
Very British!
The Cover of the German Version →
Here is the cover of the German version of my book, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence. I am sad that they didn’t include the subtitle, but it does make the cover look much cleaner and less cluttered. It’s out on October 27, 2019!
Spotted in the wild!
So happy to be next to Princess Leia, and in the company of Rebecca Solnit and Blair Imani.
Spotted in Tate Modern's Bookshop!
One of my colleagues in the UK snapped this photo in the bookshop of Tate Modern. So happy to be so close to the words of Naomi Klein.
A Review from Croatia
I found this lovely review from Express.hr.
I am so delighted that East Europeans are taking an interest in the book.
Photos from the Housing Works Valentine's Day Event
An great crowd in SoHo for Valentine’s Day.
An amazing review in the New Yorker! →
Heartfelt gratitude to Rebecca Mead! She really understood what I was trying to do with this book. I couldn’t be more thrilled with this engages and rigorous review.
“The virtue of Ghodsee’s smart, accessible book is that it illustrates how it might be possible for a woman — or, for that matter, a man — to have an entirely different structural relationship to something as fundamental as sex, or health.”
Read the full review here
Winter academic reading
My spring semester is about to start, but I had some time to delve into some great books about Eastern Europe and the politics of knowledge production during the Cold War. I wrote review of Birth of Democratic Citizenship and To See Paris and Die, I read Know Your Enemy for the first time and it inspired me to go back and reread Laura Nader’s and Noam Chomsky’s essays in The Cold War & The University.
Thanks to Sean Illing at Vox.com
Although we talked for a whole hour on the phone, Sean Illing did an amazing job of condensing our conversation into something short and readable. He was an excellent interlocutor.
New Reviews from Jacobin and the Herald of Scotland
I am thrilled at these three new reviews by Liza Featherstone for Jacobin and Susan Swarbrick for The Herald. I feel so fortunate that the book is getting such generous attention.
Meagan Day asked great questions for this Jacobin interview
It’s always a pleasure to talk to such smart and thoughtful journalists. I enjoyed this interview very much.
