Writing as a Way to Live in the World: An Interview with Emily May

Emily May came of age in a time of the Spice Girls declaring “girl power,” riot grrrls combining punk music and politics, and numerous cultural messages suggesting that the time for women’s equality was upon her.

In her debut essay collection Some Girls, May explores the harsh realization, as she passed from teenage dreams into adulthood, that the bill of goods she’d been sold was a faulty one. In the more than fourteen years May spent writing Some Girls, she watched as her own artistic p...