A new generation of readers embraces bell hooks’ ‘All About Love’

Feminist bell hooks' 2000 book on relationships, and connection, 'All About Love,' has found success decades after publication and three years after the author's death.

In the summer of 2022, Emma Goodwin was getting over a breakup and thinking hard about her life and how to better herself. She decided to try a book she had heard about often, bell hooks’ “All About Love: New Visions.”

“I loved it. It takes seriously a subject that is scoffed at in popular culture, that a lot of people see as silly,” says Goodwin, 26, a social media coordinator who lives in Philadelphia. “What has stuck with me over the past couple of years since I read it is the idea that to be a loving person is something you have to work at and not something that comes naturally.”

Brianna Pippen, a visual artist in the Washington, D.C. area, has read “All About Love” a couple times, and values it for how it explores not just romantic love, but families and friends and relationships in general. Tiffany Stewart, a writer and producer in Los Angeles, first read “All About Love” two years ago with her reading group and reread it recently.

Just from the book’s introduction, she knew it was going to “crack open” her mind and change everything she had believed.

“We’ve always been told that love should just feel good. It should be fluffy and light and easy. And that means you’re looking at the media version of love,” she said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bell-hooks-all-about-love-success-posthumous-rcna143020

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