All the lives I want essays about my best friends who happen to be famous strangers
"From columnist and critic Alana Massey, a collection of essays examining the intersection of the personal with pop culture through the lives of pivotal female figures-- from Sylvia Plath to Britney Spears-- in the spirit of Chuck Klosterman, with the heart of a true fan. Mixing Didion's affected co...
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New York :
Grand Central Publishing,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Being Winona, freeing Gwyneth : on the limitations of our celebrity "type"
- Public figures : Britney's body is everybody's
- Run the world : Amber Rose in the Great Stripper Imaginary
- All the lives I want : recovering Sylvia
- Heavenly creatures : the Gospels according to Lana, Fiona, and Dolly
- There can be only one : on Lil's Kim, Nicki Minaj, and the art of manufactured beef
- The queen of hearts : an alternative account of the life and crimes of Courtney Love
- Our sisters shall inherit the sky : on the Lisbon sisters and the misnomer of "The Virgin Suicides"
- Broken-bodied girls : on the horror of little girls grown
- Charlotte in exile : a case for the liberation of Scarlett Johansson from "Lost in Translation"
- No she without her : on Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson and the Singularity
- American pain : the suffering-class spectacle of Anna Nicole Smith
- A bigger fairy tale : on Angelica Huston and the inheritance of glamour
- Long-game bitches : on Princess Di, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes and the fine art of crazy exing
- Emparadised : on Joan Didion and personal mythology as survival.
