Dead Girls Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

Alice Bolin, Em Eldridge

eAudio - 2018

"Dead Girls is everything I want in an essay collection: provocative lines of inquiry, macabre humor, blistering intelligence... I love this book. I want to take it into the middle of a crowded room and hold it up and scream until someone tackles me the ground; even then, I'd probably keep screaming." — 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. A critical contribution to the cultural discussion of gender and genre, Los Angeles and noir, the unbearable persistence of the male gaze and the furtive potency of female rage." — Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning author of You Will Know MeNamed a... most anticipated book of 2018 by Bitch MagazineIn this poignant collection, Alice Bolin examines iconic American works from the essays of Joan Didion and James Baldwin to Twin Peaks, Britney Spears, and... more