Girls Can Kiss Now: // Essays

Wickedly funny and heartstoppingly vulnerableevery page twinkles with brilliance.Refinery29

Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby andTrick Mirror, a hilarious, whip-smart collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, pop culture, the internet, and identity, introducing one of the most undeniably original new voices today.

Jill Gutowitzs lifefor better and worsehas always been on a collision course with pop culture. Theres the time the FBI showed up at her door because of something she tweeted aboutGame of Thrones. The pop songs that have been the soundtrack to the worst moments of her life. And of course, the pivotal day whenOrange Is the New Blackhit the airwaves and broke down the door to Jills own sexuality. In these honest examinations of identity, desire, and self-worth, Jill explores perhaps the most monumental cultural shift of our lifetimes: the mainstreaming of lesbian culture. Dusting off her own personal traumas and artifacts of her not-so-distant youth she examines how pop culture acts as a fun house mirror reflecting and refracting our valuesalways teaching, distracting, disappointing, and revealing us.

Girls Can Kiss Nowis a fresh and intoxicating blend of personal stories, sharp observations, and laugh-out-loud humor. This timely collection of essays helps us make sense of our collective pop-culture past even as it points the way toward a joyous, uproarious, nearand very queerfuture.

Jill Gutowitzis a writer from New Jersey. Her writing has appeared in publications such asThe New Yorker,Vanity Fair,Vulture, and more. She lives in Los Angeles with her partner and a very small cat. is a writer from New Jersey. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker,Vanity Fair,Vulture, and more. She lives in Los Angeles with her partner and a very small cat.

• Publisher: Atria Books
• Publish Date: March 08, 2022
• Pages: 240
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9781982158507
• Dimensions: 212.7 X 139.7 X 17.8 mm | 195.0 g
• BISAC Categories: Humor & Entertainment, Biography & Memoir, LGBTQ+ Nonfiction, Humor & Entertainment