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INDEX: BROOKE’S POSTS

September 24, 2023

Indexed here are posts I’ve written while Undaunted goes through its publishing paces. They are prompted by events and media I’ve participated in, news that relates to the book’s themes, related thought streams, and some of the research I conducted that ended up in the 37,000 words I cut or relegated to endnotes from early drafts.

  • Private Undaunted appearances of September 18 and September 20, 2023 READ
  • Event host for a musical performance for the New York launch of Jeremy Eichler’s Time’s Echo READ
  • The Women’s Eye Radio program and podcast with Stacey Gualandi, August 26, 2023 LISTEN
  • The Bryant Park Reading Room, NYC, August 16, 2023 READ, WATCH, LISTEN
  • The East Hampton Library’s Authors Night, August 12, 2023, READ
  • The New Books Network interview with Jane Scimeca, August 18, 2023 LISTEN
  • Virtually home with the Oakwood Country Club Book Club, August 10, 2023, WATCH, LISTEN
  • The Platform by Peter Osnos, August 8, 2023 READ
  • “Macho-Yokelism and Sexist Stomping Unfit for the Big City, Vintage 1988,” August 8, 2023 READ
  • With Andrew Keen on his podcast, Keen On, August 4, 2023 LISTEN
  • On Edith Evans Asbury and Her Profile of One Opaque First Lady, July 27, 2023 READ
  • The Story Exchange, “Why Women Journalists are Under Attack.” Q&A, by Kate Brennan, July 25, 2023 READ
  • East Hampton Star review of Undaunted, July 20, 2023 READ
  • Undisciplined on Utah Public Radio, July 13, 2023 LISTEN
  • Talk Cocktail with Jeff Schechtman, July 13, 2023 LISTEN
  • KPCW.org Mountain Money, July 10, 2023 LISTEN
  • The New York Times (in print), Review, July 9, 2023 READ
  • The Wall Street Journal, Review, July 8, 2023  READ
  • The Wall Street Journal Digital, July 8, 2023 LISTEN
  • The New York Times Books Newsletter, by Tina Jordan, July 7, 2023 READ
  • The Fuller Project Newsletter, by  Brooke Kroeger, July 10, 2023 READ
  • PBS To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe, June 30, 2023 WATCH
  • Pagina 12 (Buenos Aires) review of Undaunted READ
  • Page & Palette Bookstore event with Dianne Bragg, Fairhope AL, June 20, 2023 READ, WATCH
  • Podcast, Living It Up With Lenise, June 19, 2023 READ, LISTEN
  • LA Times Today video review of Undaunted by Jan Hook interviewed by Lisa McRee, June 16, 2023 READ, WATCH
  • Foreign Press Association briefing by Kristen Saloomey, June 16, 2023 READ, WATCH
  • Interview, by Kiran Nazish, founding director of the Coalition For Women In Journalism (CFWIJ) Instagram Live@womeninjournalism, June 14, 2023 WATCH
  • Undaunted Out East: At the East Hampton Library (co-sponsored by Bookhampton) with Jim Rutenberg and Lynn Sherr and the after-bash at home, June 10, 2023 READ, WATCH, SEE
  • The Guardian review of Undaunted by Clara Bingham, June 10, 2023 READ
  • East Hampton Star heralds Undaunted event at the Library, co-sponsored with Bookhampton, June 8, 2023. READ
  • Zoom event with The Transition Network, June 7, 2023. WATCH
  • Gulf Coast Media featured Melanie LeCroy’s interview with Brooke, June 6, 2023. READ
  • People names Undaunted a People Pick Best Book, June 12, 2023. READ
  • The Guardian review/interview of Undaunted by Veronica Esposito, May 31, 2023. READ
  • Undaunted is NPR’s Book of the Day for May 31, 2023, which refashions Scott Simon’s Weekend Edition interview of May 20, 2023. LISTEN
  • How’s your Norwegian? An article about Brooke and Undaunted in the Oslo-based media magazine, Journalisten, May 30, 2023. READ
  • LitHub daily and in its weekend edition featured an excerpt from Undaunted on May 25 and 28, 2023. READ
  • Twenty-one hours in St. Louis for the St. Louis County Library Foundation. This post includes audio of two radio interviews, a live interview, and Brooke’s Donor Appreciation Brunch speech, plus a clip of Brett Kroeger singing a chorus of Stephen Foster’s “Nelly Bly,” May 23-24, 2023. POST, LISTEN, WATCH, SEE 
  • NPR Weekend Saturday Edition Interview with Scott Simon, May 20, 2023 (refashioned as an NPR “Book of the Day,” May 31, 2023)  LISTEN
  • NYC Undaunted Launch Celebration at the Corner Bookstore, May 18, 2023 READ, WATCH, SEE 
  • “Seven Years a Correspondent,” in Nebraska Stories, Barney McCoy’s mini-doc of the Vietnam experiences of reporter Beverly Deepe Keever for Nebraska Public Media, May 18, 2023 READ POST, LISTEN, WATCH
  • Book launch at the Corner Bookstore in New York City, May 18, 2023 READ POST, LISTEN, WATCH
  • [The Los Angeles Times review of Undaunted, May 17, 2023 READ]
  • Book Talk, with Kate Bolick, New York Genealogical & Biographical Society, May 15, 2023 READ, LISTEN
  • [The New York Times review of Undaunted, May 13, 2023 READ]
  • Panel, moderated by Gabrielle Glaser at the Montclair Literary Festival with Kate Zernike and Regan Penaluna, May 6, 2023 READ, LISTEN
  • Podcast of Terrence Gelenter, Cafe Terrance Your Friend in Paris, May 5, 2023 LISTEN
  • PEN America Author’s Evening with Brooke Kroeger, hosted by Gail Gregg, MAY 4, 2023 READ, LISTEN
  • Q&A with Brooke in the Spring 2023 issue of Historiography of Journalism and Mass Communications, focused on the research that leads to finding what was thought to be unfindable READ ARTICLE
  • Sneak peek at the preface to Undaunted in the American Journalism Historians Association May 2023 newsletter, The Intelligencer READ EXCERPT
  • Book Talk for NYU American Journalism Online with Brooke Kroeger, Kim Todd, and Undaunted‘s editor at Knopf, Jonathan Segal—March 23, 2023 READ 
  • On the sausage-making, at the New York Society Library—March 20, 2023 READ 
  • With Diana Van Dyke aka Belchase for the National Capital Lawyers Auxiliary—March 12, 2023 READ 
  • [The Publishers Weekly review of Undaunted, March 8, 2023 READ]
  • [The Kirkus Reviews review of Undaunted, March 1, 2023. READ]
  • Hannah Arendt, Rachel Carson, Joan Didion, and Betty Friedan Share This Sweetest of Fates READ POST
  • KFAI Radio Minneapolis: Before Upton Sinclair There Was Eva Gay aka Eva McDonald aka Eva McDonald Valesh “Like a Comet Streaking Across the Sky”—February 16, 2023  LISTEN
  • ABC Radio Adelaide, Mornings with David Bevan, “Guess Who’s Coming to Brunch?” (Nellie Bly)—February 14, 2023 LISTEN
  • Ishbel Ross’s 1936 Ladies of the Press and Undaunted READ 
  • Imitation of Life, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Cassandra of Feminism’s Second Wave, Fannie Hurst READ 
  • At What Used to Be Called “The Front Page Ball”—January 26, 2023 READ 
  • As Playboy Bunnies with Different Tales: Barbara Walters and Gloria Steinem as the Feminist Revolution Was Just Getting Underway READ 
  • In 1897, How a Smith College Classics Major and Stephen Crane’s Common Law Wife Covered the Greco-Turkish War READ  
  • First Amendment: Judy Garland’s Defamation Suit Put Reporter Marie Torres Behind Bars READ 
  • Of [More], Life, Susan Brownmiller, Norman Mailer and The Prisoner of Sex READ 
  • The Journalist: In Verse, Mary Clemmer, a Respected, Highly Paid Columnist of the 1870s, Had Lofty Ideas About Journalism but Her Options About the Field’s Women and Their Prospects Were Not so Helpful READ 
  • To Edgar Allan Poe, This Top Editor Was a “Pretty Little Witch” READ 
  • About Those Sliced-and-Diced-and Otherwise-Dubious-Gender-and-Racial-Firsts READ 
  • At the New York Historical Society Women’s History Salon: Listen, World! Elsie Robinson and Other Women Columnists—November 18, 2022 READ 
  • Prompted By Word of a New Biography of Lydia Maria Child READ 
  • A “Revelatory” “Riveting” Life Magazine Exhibition in Boston With a Few Additional Revelatory Research Tidbits READ 
  • The Boston Globe Trove at Northeastern Holds Its Share of Forgotten Women Journalists READ 
  • Meet Us At the Corner Where Journalism, Race, and Gender Intersect—AJHA Convention, Memphis—October 1, 2022 READ 
  • Two New Books on the Spanish Civil War Radically Change Understanding of the Work of Women Writers Against Fascism READ 
  • Dorothy Thompson: She Tore Through Europe “Like Richard Harding Davis in an Evening Gown” READ 
  • At Last, Says Judy Woodruff, Women’s Issues Are Everyone’s Issues. It Took More Than a Century But Jane Cunningham Croly’s 1875 Prediction Actually Came True READ