Lizzie Skurnick's Blog, page 12

Just a reminder

I'm a the Barnes & Noble in Tribeca tonight at 7!

Tuesday, July 28, 7:00 PM

Barnes & Noble – Tribeca

97 Warren St., NY, NY 10007

Link and map here.

SALONI never actually read "Flowers in the Attic" — just...

SALON

I never actually read "Flowers in the Attic" — just the "dirty pages" clearly marked in the well-thumbed copy passed to every single girl at summer camp  — but Lizzie Skurnick did. In fact, she reread it, along with more than 60 other books she had devoured in her youth for a Jezebel column called Fine Lines, collected into this enjoyable book.

BABBLE<><>Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Nev...

BABBLE

<><>Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading brings together her columns from Jezebel in a book that's as much memoir of a seventies childhood as it is a reader's guide to teen lit…Not merely a re-telling of the stories of classic young adult fare, Shelf Discovery repaints the stories of our childhood much they way our English teachers did their versions of the classics….Skurnick treats the dime store paperbacks with reverence, and in her re-readings, we find messages of fem</></>

The Babbler

Babble wrote a very nice post, "Lizzie Skurnick And Our Obsession With Teen Books . . . In Book Form" on Strollerderby. Point taken on brief essays, which a few other reviews have noted, although sadly you're going to be hard-pressed to make any book reviewer stop doing anything that makes people want MORE.

At age 8

My copy of Booth Tarkington's "Women" is so old it is LITERALLY saddle-stitched...like, how I would stitch it.

Oh, my

Reading Elia Kazan's "The Arrangement" -- sez Henry Miller: "When you touch it, you touch a man."

New post on Jezebel!

Little Women: The sisters are doing it for themselves...Little Women