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Marjane Satrapi, Author, Illustrator, and Legend Who Wrote Persepolis, Dies at 56
4+ hour, 29+ min ago (508+ words) jezebel. com Marjane Satrapi, Author, Illustrator, and Legend Who Wrote Persepolis, Dies at 56 America could learn a thing or two from Satrapi. When Iran-born illustrator and author Marjane Satrapi published Persepolis, a series of graphic novels, in the early 2000s, she…...
Beatriz Serrano's "Discontent' Is Jezebel's November Book Club Pick
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (599+ words) In Beatriz Serrano's new novel, Discontent, the narrator, Marisa, has a creative job (that she hates), her own office (that affords her no privacy), and a decent apartment (that is fairly tiny) in. .. Beatriz Serrano's "Discontent' Is Jezebel's November Book…...
Cross Ballerina Farm with 'Rosemary's Baby' and You Get the New Novel 'Trad Wife'
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (694+ words) Pitched as Rosemary's Baby but make it influencer, Saratoga Schaefer's novel Trad Wife differs from other forced pregnancy horrors because, in this twisted novel, the protagonist actually wants to give birth to and parent demon spawn. Schaefer's first novel came…...
Jennette Mc Curdy's New Novel, 'Half His Age,' Follows a Familiar Script
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (728+ words) Jezebel remains as committed as ever to fostering a space dedicated to championing diverse voices and standard-setting journalism that challenges and exposes the powers that be. Jennette Mc Curdy's New Novel, "Half His Age,' Follows a Familiar Script It's not…...
Jezebel's January Book Club Pick: 'Television' by Lauren Rothery
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (248+ words) I'll give [the studio] three weeks to get organized. Then I'll read two scripts a week for three weeks. If they can't give me one good script in that time frame I'm out," he tells his team over lunch. Where…...
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7+ mon, 4+ week ago (258+ words) Jezebel remains as committed as ever to fostering a space dedicated to championing diverse voices and standard-setting journalism that challenges and exposes the powers that be. We're one month away from the two-year anniversary of Jezebel's brief folding. Thanks to…...
Everyone's Seen My Tits' Is a Cheeky Title for a Memoir About Gender and Sexual Trauma
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (859+ words) Everyone's Seen My Tits is in conversation with other recent memoirs from women who've experienced sexual trauma while being in the public eye, such as Pamela Anderson and Paris Hilton, though she self-deprecatingly shrugs off those comparisons. "Both of them…...
Women, Seated" Shows How Precarity, Wealth, and Having It All" Are Not Just American Problems
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (1022+ words) Zhang Yueran's new novel is part of a wave of Asian authors breaking the dominance of Europe in translated literature in the U. S. , while dissecting gender and class in their respective societies. "Women, Seated' Shows How Precarity, Wealth, and "Having It…...