Book
All the women in my brain : and other concerns / Betty Gilpin.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250795786 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: viii, 240 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Flatiron Books, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Ahem -- Salem or Barbie -- Mom and dad -- Girl baby -- Advice to a young actress -- Away -- The thing -- Max -- Nineteen -- A play -- Options are paralysis -- The palace the light the lobby -- Brainwomen -- Thanksgiving -- Trying -- Fixer-upper -- The glimpse -- Run -- The chance -- Oh wow the end. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Gilpin, Betty. Television actors and actresses > United States > Biography. Women's wit and humor > United States. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. Personal narratives. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | 818.603 Gilpi | 31681010291524 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The Awardânominated actress and writer presents a collection of hilarious and intimate essays from the scores of different women in her brain, with discussions on modern womanhood, life in Hollywood and more. - Baker & Taylor
"Like Jenny Lawson and Caitlin Moran, Emmy-nominated actress and writer Betty Gilpin delivers a lightning-strike dispatch of hilarious, intimate, and luminous essays on how to navigate this weird and wondrous life. Betty Gilpin has a brain full of women.There's Blanche VonFuckery, Ingrid St. Rash, and a host of others-some cowering in sweatpants, some howling plans for revolution, and some, oh God, and some...slowly vomiting up a crow without breaking eye contact? Jesus. These women take turns at the wheel. That's why Betty feels like a million selves. With a raised eyebrow and a soul-scalpel, she tells us how she got this way. Betty has depression, Betty has a dream, Betty has tits the size of printers. She has debilitating shame and then, impossibly, a tiny voice saying what if. She takes us from wild dissections of modern womanhood to boarding school to the glossy cringe of Hollywood. We laugh through the failures (monologue to beagle! Ancient mentors proposing fellatio!) and quietly hope with her for the dream. Whether that dream is love or liberation or enough iMDb credits to tase the demon snapping at her ankles, we won't know until the shit-fanning end. There's Hamlet, there's self-sabotage, there's PTSD from turkey. Stunning, candid, and laugh-out-loud funny, All the Women in My Brain is perfect for any reader who's ever felt like they were more, or at least weirder, than the world expected"-- - McMillan Palgrave
"If DAVID RAKOFF and DAVID SEDARIS had a baby and that baby was Betty." âZoe Kazan
If youâve ever felt like you were more, or at least weirder, than the world expected?
you're not alone...
In this collection, EMMY AWARD-nominated ACTRESS/WRITER Betty Gilpin "writes like an avenging angel, weaving a tapestry of light and darkness, hilarity, and pathos." (Dani Shapiro)
Oh. Hi. *takes six long gulps of water during which youâre like, may I help you?*
My name is Betty. I have depression. I have passion. I have tits the size of printers. And also: I have a brain full of women.
Thereâs Blanche VonFuckery, Ingrid St. Rash, and a host of othersâsome cowering in sweatpants, some howling plans for revolution, and one, oh God, and one . . . slowly vomiting up a crow? Worried for her. These women take turns at the wheel. Thatâs why I feel like a million selves. With a raised eyebrow and a soul-scalpel, Iâd like to tell you how I got this way. Because maybe you feel this way too.
Letâs hop from wild dissections of modern womanhood to boarding school musings to the glossy cringe of Hollywood. Letâs laugh at my failures and then quietly hope with me for the dream. Whether that dream is love or liberation or enough IMDB credits to taze the demon snapping at my ankles, we wonât know until the shit-fanning end.
As a dear friend said after reading this book, itâs âeither a masterpiece, or itâsâ¦completelyâ¦â and then she glazed over into a haunted stare. Reader? This book is my opus and it is chaos.
Welcome to All the Women in My Brain.
