{"product_id":"if-youre-a-girl-revised-and-expanded-edition-isbn-9781635902020","title":"If You're a Girl, revised and expanded edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe trailblazing book that influenced a generation of writers, and proves that mature reflection needn’t be lacking in attitude.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the beginning when everything was very sexual we talked about our fantasies. She thought about having a guy for some of it. She thought about having a gun. I had gone through a lot to get away from guys so I admit that the thought of going back to them, even for a little adventure, was surprising and disconcerting …\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnn Rower’s first book, \u003ci\u003eIf You’re a Girl,\u003c\/i\u003e published by Semiotext(e)’s Native Agents series in 1991 in tandem with Cookie Mueller’s \u003ci\u003eWalking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black\u003c\/i\u003e, cemented her reputation as the Eve Babitz of lower Manhattan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRower was fifty-three years old at the time. Her stories—urtexts of female autofiction—had long been circulating within the poetry and postpunk music scenes. They were unlike anyone else’s: disarming, embarrassing, psuedoconfessional tales of everyday life dizzily told and laced with dry humor. In \u003ci\u003eIf You’re a Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, she recounts her adventures as Timothy Leary’s babysitter, her artistic romance with actor Ron Vawter, and her attempts to evade a schizophrenic stalker.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRower went on to publish two novels: \u003ci\u003eArmed Response\u003c\/i\u003e (1995) and \u003ci\u003eLee \u0026amp; Elaine\u003c\/i\u003e (2002). After the 2002 suicide of her partner, the writer Heather Lewis, Rower stopped writing for almost two decades. And then she picked up where \u003ci\u003eIf You’re a Girl\u003c\/i\u003e left off. No longer a girl, she produced dozens of stories from her life in New York as an octogenarian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new, expanded edition includes most of the original book, together with selections from both her novels and her recent writings. \u003ci\u003eIf You’re a Girl\u003c\/i\u003e is a trailblazing book that manifests Rower’s influence on a generation of writers, and proves that mature reflection needn’t be lacking in attitude.\"There is no writer like Ann Rower. She has the keenest eye and the most readable voice, making the reader feel magically initiated into a better, richer, more fascinating version of the world. The relationships and adventures detailed here feel at once familiar and made new by Rower's gift for natural storytelling. I love this book so much.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Emily Gould, author of \u003ci\u003eFriendship\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePerfect Tunes\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I know no other voice as full of surprises and unexpected, startling insights, championship chess moves disguised as digressions, as Ann Rower’s. Her sleight-of-hand modesty, the deadpan tone, is the highest form of aesthetic cunning. She isn’t only a born storyteller, she’s a born truth-teller, a much rarer bird, especially these days.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Gary Indiana, author of \u003ci\u003eDo Everything in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAnn Rower is the author of \u003ci\u003eIf You’re A Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArmed Response\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLee \u0026amp; Elaine\u003c\/i\u003e. She received a PhD from Columbia University in sixteenth-century English literature in 1974, and has collaborated with the Wooster Group as a writer. Rower taught writing in New York at the School for Visual Arts between 1974 and 2019.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChris Kraus is the author of four novels, including \u003ci\u003eI Love Dick\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSummer of Hate\u003c\/i\u003e; two books of art and cultural criticism; and most recently, \u003ci\u003eAfter Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography\u003c\/i\u003e. She received the College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism in 2008, and a Warhol Foundation Art Writing grant in 2011. She lives in Los Angeles.","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302358798565,"sku":"NP9781635902020","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781635902020.jpg?v=1767729799","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/if-youre-a-girl-revised-and-expanded-edition-isbn-9781635902020","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}