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Teenage Girls in America Write On What Fires Up Their LivesToday

Teenage Girls in America Write On What Fires Up Their LivesToday

Edited by Amy Goldwasser

Edited by Amy Goldwasser

Edited by Amy Goldwasser

Edited by Amy Goldwasser

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    About Red

    ?Unsparingly frank and perceptive? (Vanity Fair) personal essays by teenage girls.

    For every teen girl who thinks she?s alone, and every adult who?s dared to try to figure her out, comes this eye-opening collection in the spirit of New York Times bestseller Ophelia Speaks. In Red, fifty-eight girls?ranging in age from thirteen to nineteen, and writing from across the spectrum of geographic, socioeconomic, racial, and religious upbringings?share ?heartbreaking, hilarious, and often harrowing? (Francine Prose) essays about everything from politics to pop culture; from post-Katrina New Orleans to Johnny Depp; from the loneliness of losing a best friend to the loathing or pride they feel about their bodies.

    The authors of Red are brave and honest documentarians of their own lives. These girls are the best shades of red (not pink): a little bit angry, a lot passionate. They?re on fire, and their essays speak gloriously for the future.

    About Red

    A vivid portrait of what it means to be a teenage girl in America today, from 58 of the country’s finest, most credentialed writers on the subject

    If you’re a teenage girl today, you live your life in words-in text and instant messages, on blogs and social network pages. It’s how you conduct your friendships and present yourself to the world. Every day, you’re creating a formidable body of personal written work.

    This generation’s unprecedented comfort level with the written word has led to a fearless new American literature. These collected essays, at last, offer a key to understanding the inscrutable teenage girl-one of the most mislabeled and underestimated members of society, argues editor and writer Amy Goldwasser, whose work has appeared in Seventeen, Vogue, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. And while psychologists and other experts have tried to explain the teen girl in recent years, no book since Ophelia Speaks has given her the opportunity to speak for herself-until now.

    In this eye-opening collection, nearly sixty teenage girls from across the country speak out, writing about everything from post-Katrina New Orleans to Johnny Depp; from learning to rock climb to starting a rock band; from the loneliness of losing a best friend to the loathing or pride they feel about their bodies. Ranging in age from 13 to 19, and hailing from Park Avenue to rural Nevada, Georgia to Hawaii, the girls in RED-whose essays were selected from more than 800 contributions-represent a diverse spectrum of socioeconomic, political, racial, and religious backgrounds, creating a rich portrait of life as a teen girl in America today.

    Revealing the complicated inner lives, humor, hopes, struggles, thrills, and obsessions of this generation, RED ultimately provides today’s teen girl with much-needed community, perspective, and validation-and helps the rest of us to better understand her.

    About Amy Goldwasser

    Amy Goldwasser has edited and written for publications including Seventeen, The New Yorker, Vogue, The New York Times, Salon, New York Magazine, and Outside. She teaches editing in the Columbia Publishing Course and writing at the Lower Eastside Girls Club.

    About Amy Goldwasser

    Amy Goldwasser has edited and written for publications including Seventeen, The New Yorker, Vogue, The New York Times, Salon, New York Magazine, and Outside. She teaches editing in the Columbia Publishing Course and writing at the Lower Eastside Girls Club.

    Product Details

    Category: Essays & Literary Collections | Biography & Memoir

    Paperback | $24.00
    Published by Plume
    Oct 28, 2008 | 288 Pages | 5-5/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780452289833

    Category: Essays & Literary Collections | Biography & Memoir

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Plume
    Nov 08, 2007 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9781101213810

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    Table Of Contents

    Red Teenage GirlsAmy Goldwasser Introduction

    The Body and Various Thoughts on Beauty

    Amy Hunt Sleeves
    Alison Smith Curve
    Jane Horowitz The Jewish Hair
    Tiffani Hortman Muscle
    Emily Kaplan Ode to My Breasts
    Caro Fink Lucky
    Charlotte Steinway The Weather Report
    Meike Schleiff The “Beautiful” Cause of Death That Had Me Dying for a While

    People You Have to Live with and Other Family

    Alicia Davis Country
    Claudia Berger The News
    Hannah Morris The Two of Us
    Sarah Morris To See How They Look on Me, on You
    Emma Considine Bloody Red Heart
    Jordyn Turney Mascara Wands Are Instruments of War
    Zulay Regalado Pots nd Pans
    Annie Littlewood TLC: Three Days
    Maxine Keyes Ghost Stories

    What Can Be Learned at School

    Emily Knox The Best Kind of Popular
    Laura Lowe A Retelling of the Black-Letter Days, The Red-Letter Days, and the Fine Line That Ties Them Together
    Elizabeth Case Hey You, Freshman with the Face!
    Sara Harari Life Goes up a Wall
    Carey Dunne Gym at Riverton
    Lisa Chau Stuck in Traffic
    Deborah Kim Packing

    Friendships: Gone Well, Gone Poorly, Just Gone

    Sarah McIntosh Lies We Have Told
    Sarah Harrison Tampoons
    Rebecca Murray Big Shoes
    Elizabeth Metzger An Orchid, If That Is What It Is

    Crushes Sweet and Excruciating, Sex, and a Love That Ends in Desert Rehab

    Jocelyn Pearce The Match
    Jasmine Sennhauser Decent Guy on the Planet
    Eliza Appleton Cribs
    Hayley Hoover The Sun’s Shining Hotter
    Jessica Goodman Boy One
    Samantha Lewin Finding Myself in Utah

    Anytyhing Extracurricular: The Beach, the Horse, the Bee, the Lousy First Job, the Stellar Future Career, etc.

    Kirsten Oldroyd Mini Mountain
    Kelly Otterness Lately
    Erika Kwee East
    Lucy Bennett The Hamptons
    Jaclyn Humphrey Pediatrics
    Anna Saxon The Management
    Samantha Gillogly Apiarian Days
    Lindsay Erin Sellers Alone

    Media, Pop Culture, Johnny Depp, Freakdom, and Fandom

    Sarah Schelde What Truthiness Taught Me About Being (Un)Cool
    Kali Moriarty Appeal from an Angry Not So Emo
    Grace Habegger The Depth of Depp
    Olive Panter Play
    Saskia Boggs Just Watch

    The World and What’s Wrong (Sometimes Even What’s Right) with It: Battle Cries

    Dani Cox Ms. President
    Cammi Henao Once in a While
    Aarian Marshall Burning in Heaven
    Zoe Mendelson Places of Worship
    Danielle Norman Repeat
    Cindy Morand The Border
    Kathleen Hicks Bodies of Water
    Maya-Catherine Popa The Dial Life—and Him
    Emily-Nicole Johns New City
    Carla Perez-Gallardo To Do

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