June 24, 2025
By Susan Horwich
Please join us for the fifth installment of our newly revived WordSprouts program in partnership with the Old Stone House.
WordSprouts is a long-running PSFC author series, where Coop authors share thoughts about their works and process. To get updates about WordSprouts events, check the Linewaiters’ Gazette or sign up for the WordSprouts mailing list at psfcwordsprouts@gmail.com.
Our next event:
Speaker: Suzanne Cope (PSFC member)
Literary Genre: Biography & Memoir / World War ll Military History
When: Wednesday, June 25, 2025 — doors open at 6:45 p.m., event begins at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Old Stone House, 336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Suzanne will read aloud from her newly published book, Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis (Penguin Random House, April 29, 2025). Following the reading, Suzanne will be in conversation with WordSprouts squad leader Sara Schenck.
According to the author’s website, Women of War is the gripping, true, and untold history of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during WW ll, told through the stories of four spectacularly courageous women fighters. Women of War offers not only a reexamination of the elision of women from vital WW ll history but also a valuable perspective on the ongoing fight for gender equality and social justice.
According to the publisher’s website, Suzanne is a scholar and narrative journalist, and is also the author of Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement. Her work on themes of political and social change, feminism, food and culture has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, Food & Wine, BBC, Washington Post, Aeon and others. She is a professor at New York University.
Suzanne’s favorite Coop item is seasonal produce! Recently, her favorite workslot is volunteering at CHiPS, helping to check in clients for lunch and the food pantry.
To learn more about Suzanne’s writing, please visit her website, suzannecope.com. Suzanne’s presentation will be followed by questions from the audience and drinks and snacks courtesy of the Coop. Suzanne will be available to sign copies of Women of War, and she will offer books for sale. The book can be ordered from Penguin Random House, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books a Million, Bookshop.org, Hudson Booksellers, Powell’s, Target and Walmart.
WordSprouts’ squad leader is Sarah Schenck and squad members are Susan Horwich and Ruthie Nachmany