A lot of the book is about facing these expectations that we have for women and the ways that I do not fulfill those expectations-and then claiming that space anyway. It’s a pejorative that is assigned only to women…. Why did you decide to title your memoir Shrill? Her first book, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman(Hachette Books, $26) is released May 17. There are all kinds of things that people avoid doing because they’re not cool, but in the long run, it’s just so much more fulfilling to be good than to be cool.Ĭolumbia City–based writer Lindy West got her start as an arts reporter for The Stranger, and now focuses on topics that include pop culture, social justice and body image for GQ and The Guardian. It isn’t considered cool to be sincere or vulnerable or to stick up for people that maybe aren’t saying such fashionable things. And also that being “cool” isn’t that important. And that it’s much more fun to conquer the world as yourself than to try to twist and shrink yourself into someone that you’re not to fulfill other people’s demands. What would you like people to take away from this book? First of all, that they’re OK they don’t have to change for other people.
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