Reviews, interviews, & press

Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project: Piecing Together the Puzzle
NPR: “Tomboyland Stresses the Importance of Roots—and Knowing When to Grow up and Away"
Washington Post: “Melissa Faliveno’s Essay Offer Funny, Moving Explorations of Self and Society"
Marketplace What It’s Like Publishing Your First Book During a Pandemic
Wisconsin Public Radio Tomboyland: A Love Letter to Midwestern Strength, Complexities
Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour: Talking Tomboys with Melissa Faliveno
The Believer: Interview with Jeannie vanasco
Bitch Magazine: Meat & Potatoes: In Tomboyland, Melissa Faliveno Asks Who Can Explore Queerness
Ms. Magazine: The Ms. Q&A: What Does it Mean to be a Tomboy?
Them: Tomboyland Considers the Meaning of Home, in One’s Body and the World
Electric Literature: The Bad Things We Have to Do to be Good Girls
Ploughshares: This Land Made You
The Cap Times: Essayist Melissa Faliveno Explores the Murkiness of the Midwest in Tomboyland
The Rumpus: A Chorus of Voices: Talking with Melissa Faliveno
Oprah Magazine: LGBTQ Books That are Changing the Literary Landscape in 2020
Vogue: 7 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in August
AV Club: 5 New Books to Read in August
Shape Magazine: What Bisexuality Means
Kirkus Fully Booked Podcast: Journeys in Tomboyland
No Tokens: Storms & Reckonings: An Interview with Melissa Faliveno, author of Tomboyland
Adroit Journal: Liminal Spaces of Identity: A Conversation with Melissa Faliveno
YAHOO! Best Books to Pick Up Before Summer Ends
Pittsburgh City Paper: 11 Book Releases to Look Out for this August
Greenpointers: Q&A with Greenpoint Author Melissa Faliveno
Largehearted Boy: Playlist for Tomboyland
Milwaukee Journal Sentinal: 33 Books to Read in Fall 2020
Shepherd Express: A Late Summer Reading List
On Wisconsin: The Boundaries of Personhood
Debutiful Podcast: In Tomboyland, Melissa Faliveno Traverses Everything from Working-Class Communities to Queerness
Creative Nonfiction Podcast: Tornadoes, BDSM Potlucks? Welcome to Tomboyland with Melissa Faliveno
Write or Die Tribe: Melissa Faliveno on the Desire to Feel at Home, Practicing Vulnerability and Her Debut Essay Collection, Tomboyland
Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
Library Journal (Recommended)
Kirkus Reviews
Booklist
Harvard Review
Good River Review
Work-in-Progress
Book Talk with Kory French
New Books Network Podcast
En(gender)ed Podcast
Fierce Womxn Writing Podcast