Author: Alice Bolin
Publisher: William Morrow Paperback
Date of publication: June 2018
In this poignant collection, Alice Bolin examines iconic
American works from the essays of Joan Didion and James Baldwin to Twin
Peaks, Britney Spears, and Serial, illuminating the widespread
obsession with women who are abused, killed, and disenfranchised, and whose
bodies (dead and alive) are used as props to bolster men’s stories. Smart and
accessible, thoughtful and heartfelt, Bolin investigates the implications of
our cultural fixations, and her own role as a consumer and creator.
Bolin chronicles her life in Los Angeles, dissects the Noir,
revisits her own coming of age, and analyzes stories of witches and werewolves,
both appreciating and challenging the narratives we construct and absorb every
day. Dead Girls begins by exploring the trope of dead women in
fiction, and ends by interrogating the more complex dilemma of living women –
both the persistent injustices they suffer and the oppression that white women
help perpetrate.
Reminiscent of the piercing insight of Rebecca Solnit and
the critical skill of Hilton Als, Bolin constructs a sharp, perceptive, and
revelatory dialogue on the portrayal of women in media and their roles in our
culture.
“Dead Girls is everything I want in an essay collection: provocative lines of inquiry, macabre humor, blistering intelligence… I love this book.” — Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties
“Bracing and blazingly smart, Alice Bolin’s Dead Girls could hardly be more needed or more timely.” — Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning author of You Will Know Me
Best of summer 2018 – included on best-of lists by Bitch Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, The Millions, Esquire, Refinery29, Nylon, PopSugar, The Chicago Tribune, Book Riot, and CrimeReads
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About Alice Bolin
Alice Bolin’s nonfiction has appeared in many
publications including ELLE, the Awl, the LA Review of
Books, Salon, VICE’s Broadly, The Paris Review Daily,
and The New Yorker‘s Page-Turner blog. She currently teaches
creative nonfiction at the University of Memphis.
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Thanks for featuring this book for the tour!
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