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Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a hilarious, whip-smart collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, pop culture, the internet, and identity, introducing one of the most undeniably original new voices today.
Jill Gutowitz's life--for better and worse--has always been on a collision course with pop culture. There's the time the FBI showed up at her door because of something she tweeted about Game of Thrones. The pop songs that have been the soundtrack to the worst moments of her life. And of course, the pivotal day when Orange Is the New Black hit the airwaves and broke down the door to Jill's own sexuality. In these honest examinations of identity, desire, and self-worth, Jill explores perhaps the most monumental cultural shift of our lifetimes: the mainstreaming of lesbian culture. Dusting off her own personal traumas and artifacts of her not-so-distant youth she examines how pop culture acts as a fun house mirror reflecting and refracting our values--always teaching, distracting, disappointing, and revealing us.
Girls Can Kiss Now is a fresh and intoxicating blend of personal stories, sharp observations, and laugh-out-loud humor. This timely collection of essays helps us make sense of our collective pop-culture past even as it points the way toward a joyous, uproarious, near--and very queer--future.
"Jill Gutowitz’s collection of essays on “the mainstreaming of queer women in pop culture” is hilarious, sharp, and yet deeply personal. She offers touching, intimate reflections on self-discovery and coming of age..."
Eric Cervini is an author and historian of LGBTQ politics and culture.
This month’s Queer Book Club selection is GIRLS CAN KISS NOW, written by the hilarious Jill Gutowitz. If you grab your copy here, you’ll receive a SIGNED EDITION that Jill has very graciously provided us. Let me know what you think!! https://t.co/pTQ6NNw3Ni
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"A penetrating reflection of the anxiety modern generations face and a lesbian love story for the end of the world." —@jillgutowitz author of Girls Can Kiss Now. Enter for your chance to win an advance copy of YOURS FOR THE TAKING by @Gabrielle_Korn on @goodreads: https://t.co/1s9Sa6LvqF