Belle Lettres: Jessie Redmon Fauset

Hello, fellow Germs! Welcome to a new series called Belle Lettres, which spotlights female writers who might not be very well-known. The title is a play on the literary term belle-lettres, which is French for “beautiful letters.” Belle-lettres encompasses categories such as poetry, essays, and fiction that are valued for their originality of style and tone as well as […]

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#GERMreads June Uppercase Unboxing

This month’s Uppercase box has arrived filled with goodies and our July book for #GERMreads! Check out the video below to see what we have in store: [su_youtube url=”http://youtu.be/ITVqw0P49JU” width=”480″ height=”300″][su_youtube_advanced url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOmsSVbT-nY”][/su_youtube] So, starting July 1st, we will be reading Renée Ahdieh’s The Wrath & the Dawn, a re-telling of A Thousand and One Nights. Here’s the […]

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