Prairie Lights

Regan Penaluna will read from and talk about her new book, How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind, with Iowa City author Rachel Yoder.  “A feminist rallying cry informed by centuries of thought on the ‘woman question,’ this elegantly written and intellectually rigorous memoir is a gift to women in male-dominated fields—and to everyone living a life of the mind while also trying to be a decent human being.” — Ada Calhoun

Regan Penaluna was raised in small town Iowa and is currently a writer and journalist based in Brooklyn. She has been an editor at Nautilus Magazine and Guernica, where she wrote and edited long-form stories and interviews. A feature she wrote was listed in the Atlantic as one of “100 Exceptional Works of Journalism.”  Rachel Yoder is the author of Nightbitch and a founding editor of draft: the journal of process.