Anne Elizabeth Moore's Blog

GENTRIFIER on NPR's most anticipated titles for the month!

NPR recommends GENTRIFIER on its list of hot October books:

"Told in a series of darkly comic vignettes, Gentrifier ... is an investigation of the costs—monetary, psychological, ethical—of Moore's free house [and] an ode to community and neighbors, especially the girls on her street."

Pre-orders of Gentrifier: A Memoir ship soon. Special signed bookplates available from select locales!

GENTRIFIER: A MEMOIR giveaway now open!

Exciting news! You can now enter to win one of 20 copies of Gentrifier: A Memoir in the Goodreads Giveaway! It's the story of a free house, yes, but also a city and a neighborhood, and what it takes to survive, together, despite disenfranchisement and disinvestment. I hope you win a free copy and like it very much!!

Eisner Award!

Thrilled to announce that Sweet Little Cunt: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet won a Will Eisner Comics Industry Award! Thanks to everyone who worked on, voted for, or otherwise supported this book. I'm thrilled by the recognition!

Sweet Little Cunt: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet nominated for a Will Eisner Comic Industry Award!

I'm delighted to announce that Sweet Little Cunt: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet has been nominated for an Eisner!

See you all in San Diego in July!

Body Horror is up for a Lammy!

Totally thrilled to announce that Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes is up for a Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBTQ nonfiction! All the books on that list are great. Good luck to all the nominees!

"What I am interested in is not identifying under a certain label but actually working toward the increased rights of certain people. So [feminism is] a word I don’t use much."

Very sweet, tiny interview in Chicago Magazine today with a few details on Body Horror: Essays on Misogyny and Capitalism.

Totally amazing starred review of Body Horror in PW

Publisher's Weekly blew me away with this surprisingly insightful (and overwhelmingly positive) review of Body Horror: Essays on Misogyny and Capitalism: "Sharp, shocking, and darkly funny, the essays in this sapient collection ... expose the twisted logic at the core of Western capitalism and our stunted understanding of both its violence and the illnesses it breeds. Through such diverse avenues as the garment industry in Cambodia, modeling in New York, the history of the sanitary napkin disposal bag, the development of standard time, and the evolution of intellectual property law, Moore’s precise language, organized facts, and intuitive turns of thought uncover the casual and unremitting violence inflicted on the bodies of women by labor, marketing, and compulsive consumption. ... Brainy and historically informed, this collection is less a rallying cry or a bitter diatribe than a series of irreverent and ruthlessly accurate jabs at a culture that is slowly devouring us."

Read the whole thing here: Body Horror

Body Horror in the Chicago Reader!

Galleys just went out yesterday, but already Body Horror: Essays on Misogyny and Capitalism made the Chicago Reader's list of books that'll help see you through the next (potentially nutso) year.

See the full (great) list here: http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/...

Body Horror—coming in spring!

Heads up, homies:

Only four days left to enter the giveaway for my next book, Body Horror: Essays on Misogyny and Capitalism.

Do it here and don't forget to leave a review when you're done!

VOA Khmer interview and New Girl Law giveaway!

Microcosm Publishing is giving away three copies of my book New Girl Law, just featured in an interview with VOA Khmer, my first-ever broadcast interview with a Cambodian-raised woman journalist. Sign up if you don't yet have a copy!