All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (749 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1455565865 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Signed with Grand Central Publishing since June of 2015, Alana Massey is a writer whose work covers culture, labor, identity, and mortality. The popularity and substance of her writing has earned her the attention of publications like The Awl, The Columbia Journalism Review, and Forbes, who have all published profiles of th
These essays are personal without being confessional and clever in a way that invites readers into the joke. But it is, above all, a paean to the celebrities who have shaped a generation of women--from Scarlett Johansson to Amber Rose, Lil' Kim, Anjelica Huston, Lana Del Rey, Anna Nicole Smith and many more. "Alana Massey's prose is to brutal honesty what a mandolin is to a butter knife: she's sharper; she slices thinner; she shows the cross-section of a truth so deftly--so powerfully and cannily--it's hard to look away, and hard not to feel that something has shifted in you for having read her."--Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy ExamsFrom columnist and critic Alana Massey, a collection of essays examining the intersection of the personal with pop culture through the lives of pivotal fema
This book inspired me to pursue the Unlikeable Woman archetype with a new and unprecedented fervor and has left me with a deligh Jacq T. Alana Massey waxes poetic about Anna Nicole Smith which more people need to be doing. This book inspired me to pursue the Unlikeable Woman archetype with a new and unprecedented fervor and has left me with a delightfully feminist determination to live brazenly and to care less for the #NotAllMen who have disappointed womankind again and again.It makes me wish snorting lines of glitter was a thing I could do to take me and my friends to that fictitious island in Wonder Woman where we practic. Megan said Buy this book. Buy this book for your friends. Buy this book for a stranger.. I have read this book twice now and I will probably read it again after I write this review. Alana is a clever and insightful writer who beautifully blends together high and low-brow in a way I've never seen before. It is refreshing, honest, and perfectly emotional. Whether or not you consider yourself a person who cares deeply about pop culture, you'll find meaning in these essays as Alana dissects what these women mean to our culture and how our culture has treated them.. "Cultural criticism worth your time." according to LESReader. Tender and ferocious in equal measure, All the Lives I Want offers a host of new perspectives on our cultural treatment of famous women, and demonstrates new, more gentle ways of approaching them and ourselves. For the weight of the topics, Massey's signature humor shines through, making the book feel more like a conversation than a lecture.
She reminds us that girls' expansive documentation of their own vulnerability is fundamentally a project of making meaning of their (our) lives. Her prose is measured and cool."Slate"Alana Massey is rightfully hailed as one of the sharpest voices today. A stunning and necessary book."Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood"Through the prism of female icons and celebrities, both deified and demonized ALL THE LIVES I WANT offers a poignant and often hilarious dissection of how pop culture shapes and consumes the women it elevates. As she writes her own femini