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New Books in Popular CultureFiona Helmsley, “Girls Gone Old” (We Heard You Like Books, 2017)Fiona Helmsley‘s Girls Gone Old (We Heard You Like Books, 2017) is wildly honest, intense in its personal and cultural inquiry, and often brilliantly hilarious. Helmsley uses her keen eye, rich life experience, and incredible humor to get readers to consider and swallow hard truths, while also considering the wider cultural implications. A friend’s questions regarding the subject matter of her work (often continued reflection upon the complexity of her youth), posed on the night before her 40th birthday, acted as a springboard for this collection, and the 2016 presidential election results of cemented the deal. Helmsley has crafted soph...2017-08-121h 04
New Books in LiteratureFiona Helmsley, “Girls Gone Old” (We Heard You Like Books, 2017)Fiona Helmsley‘s Girls Gone Old (We Heard You Like Books, 2017) is wildly honest, intense in its personal and cultural inquiry, and often brilliantly hilarious. Helmsley uses her keen eye, rich life experience, and incredible humor to get readers to consider and swallow hard truths, while also considering the wider cultural implications. A friend’s questions regarding the subject matter of her work (often continued reflection upon the complexity of her youth), posed on the night before her 40th birthday, acted as a springboard for this collection, and the 2016 presidential election results of cemented the deal. Helmsley has crafted soph...2017-08-121h 04
Give and TakeEpisode 41: Girls Gone Old, with Fiona HelmsleyMy guest is Fiona Helmsley. Her most recent book of essays is entitled "Girls Gone Old." Her writing can be found online at websites like The Rumpus, Jezebel, The Weeklings, The Hairpin, PANK and in various anthologies like Ladyland and The Best Sex Writing of the Year. A multiple Pushcart nominee, her book of essays and stories, My Body Would be the Kindest of Strangers was released in 2015. She is an MFA candidate at L’École de Merde.Special Guest: Fiona Helmsley.2017-07-2851 min
Otherppl with Brad ListiEpisode 475 — Fiona HelmsleyFiona Helmsley is the guest. Her new essay collection, Girls Gone Old, is available from We Heard You Like Books. In today's monologue, I talk about skywriting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2017-07-261h 15