White Girls
A Autobiography, Race, Writing book. Writers' bodies don't make sense in a place like Hollywood: soft and white, defenseless in a town where everyone's defended,...
White Girls, Hilton Als’s first book since The Women fourteen years ago, finds one of The New Yorker's boldest cultural critics deftly weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history. The result is an extraordinary, complex portrait of "white girls," as Als dubs them—an expansive but precise category that encompasses figures as diverse as Truman Capote and Louise Brooks, Malcolm X and Flannery O’Connor. In pieces that hairpin between critique and meditation, fiction and nonfiction, high culture and low, the theoretical and the deeply personal, Als presents a stunning portrait of a writer by way of his subjects, and an invaluable guide to the culture of our time.
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- Pages: 339 pages
- ISBN: 9781940450063 / 1940450063
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Is this what love gets up to, one person demanding self-exposure so theres more to love, Hilton Als, White Girls // Writers' bodies don't make sense in a place like Hollywood: soft and white, defenseless in a town where everyone's defended, right up to their celluloid tits. Hilton Als, White Girls // Regardless of where many of us believe we land - in that field encumbered by not too much baggage or entirely too much - we all come from the same place, which is a road rutted by experience so banal, nearly remarkable, that memory tricks us into remembrance of it again and again, as if experience alone were not enough. What are we to do with such a life, one in which we are not left alone to events - love, shopping, and so forth - but to the holocaust of feeling that memory, misremembered or not, imposes on us? Hilton Als, White Girls //
Felt like a book Als needed to write, if also not the book I was hoping he'd write. Great on popular culture icons such as Louise Brooks and Richard Pryor, but off-puttingly insular and coded when dealing with more personal and (presumably) autobiographical material.And here I'll turn it over to Roxane Gay, whose review quote was the... Overall, a lot of variability in this collection. If I was rating only the first piece in this collection of prose, it would be 4.75 stars. I kept waiting for something as good as the first story (Tristes Tropiques) to happen again, but nothing really got to the same level. Tristes Topiques pulled me in with a very unique voice, and... HILTON ALS. I love this guy!! It all began for me, as for so many people, with the infamous New Yorker article about Prince. That was when I began noticing his byline on article after article after review, and all of them were awesome! So when his book came out I was all over it and I was not disappointed. Welll.... maybe a little actually....
