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Alice Bolin

Dead Girls

  • Regina Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    The tradition of the personal essay is full of self-appointed outcasts
  • Regina Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    Particularly disturbing are the ways that white female victims become the mascots of campaigns against “crime,” which can almost always be read as campaigns against a city’s poor and nonwhite residents
  • Regina Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    sixties and seventies counterculture: having been helpless children during the biggest disaster of the twentieth century, they tended to view despair not as political but existential
  • Regina Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    I see now that my mission inaugurated with The Flamethrowers was an attempt to discover who I could be as a writer without Didion as my guiding star
  • Regina Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    Didion writes that public fascination cast Hearst’s story as “a special kind of sentimental education, a public coming-of-age.”
  • Regina Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    He experienced some of the struggles of black American expatriation that James Baldwin identified: that in order to achieve the kind of security one could not have in the United States, a black person must pay the price of complicity and self-hatred
  • Regina Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    thus they found the commercial distasteful
  • Regina Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    Rachel Kushner’s art-and-anarchy novel The Flamethrowers
  • Regina Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    This contradiction produces shame and anger in girls, who take out their rage on the only people who are vulnerable to them, by punishing and policing their sisters but also themselves
  • Regina Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    but that our culture encourages female intimacy while also despising women without men and suspecting that they are wild and sinister
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