In-Store: Julia Cooke: Starry and Restless w/ Julie Satow

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• Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
• A signing will follow the talk.
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The page-turning story of three women reporters and the way they changed the world, work, and journalism.

Rebecca West, Emily “Mickey” Hahn, Martha Gellhorn. Congo, the American South, Cuba, the lively salons of Shanghai, Yugoslavia on the brink of World War II, the shot-riddled streets of Spain, Hong Kong under Japanese occupation, Germany and Italy at war, post-Blitz London, McCarthy-era Mexico, and beyond. These women didn’t just bear witness to the great changes of the twentieth century, they didn’t just write the backstory to wars that roused their readers to support, they transformed the very world they were describing, and the way it was understood.

Each writer traversed the globe, searching for stories they would then dispatch to The New Yorker, The Times (London), The New York Times, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, Collier’s, and Vogue. They often traveled alone, sometimes teaming up with other women reporters, sometimes with their husbands along for the ride. They sneaked onto the front lines when they were forbidden, interviewed civilians to gather color and detail. They wrote novels to pay the bills and articles to explain the world to itself. Over the course of their intertwining lives, they became mothers and friends, took joy in each other’s successes.

Julia Cooke's Starry and Restless is the story of three women whose curiosity, grit, and ambition expanded the possibilities for women and meaningful work.

Julia Cooke is the author of the books Come Fly the World, a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist and a Malala's Book Club pick, and The Other Side of Paradise. Her essays have been published in A Public Space, Salon, The Threepenny Review, Smithsonian, Tin House, and Virginia Quarterly Review, and her reporting has been published in Condé Nast Traveler, The New York Times, Playboy, and more. She holds an MFA from Columbia University.

Julie Satow is the author of The New York Times bestseller, When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and named Best Book of 2024 by the Financial Times, Cosmopolitan,Smithsonian, the New York Post, and Vogue. Her first book, The Plaza: The Secret Life of America’s Most Famous Hotel was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and an NPR Favorite Book of the Year. An award-winning journalist, Julie has written for The New York Times, National Public Radio, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. A native New Yorker, she graduated from Columbia College and holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.

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