{"product_id":"white-girls-isbn-9780143134756","title":"White Girls","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"This book will change you.\" --\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Girls\u003c\/i\u003e is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philosophy, porn, Eminem, Louise Brooks, and Michael Jackson. Freewheeling and dazzling, tender and true, it is one of the most daring and provocative books of recent years, an invaluable guide to the culture of our time.A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award in LGBT Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e One of the \u003ci\u003eA.V. Club\u003c\/i\u003e’s Favorite Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e One of \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e’ Best Books of 2013\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Als is one of the most consistently unpredictable and surprising essayists out there, an author who confounds our expectations virtually every time he writes . . . Magnificent.” —David L. Ulin, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Effortless, honest and fearless.” —Rich Benjamin, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A comprehensive and utterly lovely collection of one of the best writers around.” —Eugenia Williamson, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Exhilarating . . . audacious.” —Jan Stuart, \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “The writing itself stands as the most spectacular performance . . . brilliant lunacy.” —Melissa Anderson, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin.”  —Alexander Larman, \u003ci\u003eThe Observer \u003c\/i\u003e(UK)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[Als] deconstructs traditional hierarchies of American identity and creates kaleidoscopic portraits of these artists, and of himself.” —Rachel Arons, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[Als’s] theories are so original that they’ll make you think differently about race and gender whether you’re a white girl or not . . . his sharper ideas will be debated for years.” ––Melissa Maerz, \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “This is a book that readers will want to spend the rest of their lives with: a searching, insistent, and thoroughly wise collection.\" —Molly McArdle, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (starred Review)\u003cbr\u003e “Cultural critic Hilton Als might have written the essay collection of the year with this month’s \u003ci\u003eWhite Girls\u003c\/i\u003e, if indeed it were merely a book of essays. Instead, each piece explores so many genres—melding fiction with fact, the deeply personal to the staid journalistic profile—that Als isn’t so much playing multiples chords at once as multiple pianos . . . Als has created a work of art.” —Christopher Bollen, \u003ci\u003eInterview Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “These essays defy categorization . . . This was a book I hated as much as I loved it for the incisive cultural criticism that has made me question nearly everything.” —Roxane Gay, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Als interweaves personal revelation with cultural touchstones, sometimes hopping from topic to topic at a breakneck speed, other times examining concepts so strategically and methodically his words become scalpels, flaying open unacknowledged bias, privilege, and conflict where he sees it.” —Andrea Battleground, \u003ci\u003eThe A.V. Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “I read Als not only because he is utterly extraordinary, which he is, but for the reason one is often drawn to the best writers—because one has a sense that one's life might depend on them. \u003ci\u003eWhite Girls\u003c\/i\u003e is a book, a dream, an enemy, a friend, and, yes, the read of the year.”\u003cbr\u003e —Junot DíazHilton Als is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received numerous awards, including the New York Association of Black Journalists' first prize for Magazine\/Critique\/Review and Magazine Arts and Entertainment, a Guggenheim fellowship for Creative Writing, a George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, and the American Academy's Berlin Prize. He is an Associate Professor at Columbia University's School of the Arts, and his work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300706930917,"sku":"NP9780143134756","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143134756.jpg?v=1767744123","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/white-girls-isbn-9780143134756","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}