This time of great frustration, this collection is a clearing in the woods to Help fellow witches articulate why they are so fired up (YES!)."- Booklist "Equal parts hilarious and sobering, West's words will Some of the topics she tackles: Adam Sandler, Donald Trump, South Park, 'reverse sexism,' and classic movies like Sixteen Candles that make rape look like 'silly fun.'- Bustle " Shrill author Lindy West's latest essay collection is a thoughtful and funny examination of rape culture in media. MOMTASTIC, "Best Books to Pick Up This Holiday Season"īUST Magazine, "6 New Books Perfect for the Coldest Winter Months" Refinery29, " Best Books of November 2019"Ĭhicago-Sun Times, "Buzzworthy New Books" Yahoo!, "Best November book releases to add to your Christmas wish list"Ī.V. TIME, " 11 New Books You Should Read in November!" Louis Dispatch, " 20+ eye-opening books you'll want to read this fall"īook Riot, "5 Boss Lady Books of Nonfiction"ĭen of Geek, "Autumnal Book Guide: 15 Best Fall 2019 Reads"Įsquire, "Most Anticipated Books of 2019"īook Riot, "Ready, Set, Hold: November 2019"Įntertainment Weekly, "20 New Books to Read in November" we can't wait to read this fall 2019"īustle, "15 New Books Under 300 Pages That Will Help You Smash Your Reading Goal Before the End of the Year!"īook Riot, "50 Of The Best Books to Read This Fall"īustle, " The 20 Best New Books of Fall 2019 According to Authors" USA TODAY, "Best Books Coming Out in Fall 2019" TIME, "Most anticipated books for Fall 2019" Library Journal, "Editors' Fall Picks for 2019"īustle, "10 New #MeToo Movement Books To Read in Fall 2019" Lindy West turns on the light.Īmazon, "Best Books of the Month in Nonfiction"Į! News, "The Best New Books of November 2019!" The truth can transform us there is witchcraft in it. We cannot understand how we got here‚-how the land of the free became Trump's America-without examining the chasm between who we are and who we think we are, without fact-checking the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and each other. And then, true to form-like the Balrog's whip catching Gandalf by his little gray bootie, like the husband in a Lifetime movie hissing, 'If I can't have you, no one can'-white American voters shoved an incompetent, racist con man into the White House." West writes, "We were just a hair's breadth from electing America's first female president to succeed America's first black president. She tracks the misogyny and propaganda hidden (or not so hidden) in the media she and her peers devoured growing up, a buffet of distortions, delusions, prejudice, and outright bullsh*t that has allowed white male mediocrity to maintain a death grip on American culture and politics-and that delivered us to this precarious, disorienting moment in history. In a laugh-out-loud, incisive cultural critique, West extolls the world-changing magic of truth, urging readers to reckon with dark lies in the heart of the American mythos, and unpacking the complicated, and sometimes tragic, politics of not being a white man in the twenty-first century. In The Witches Are Coming, firebrand author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and now critically acclaimed Hulu TV series Shrill, Lindy West, turns that refrain on its head. We're witches, and we're hunting you.įrom the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era.
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