![]() ![]() ![]() He's good-looking but it also has something to do with his ability to show up and save the day: Breaking up fights or preventing car accidents. Yeah, a few people exist who don't seem to understand his charms, but by and large, he's adored. Few celebrities are so universally loved as Ryan Gosling. While "women's lib crowd" seems a rather retro turn of phrase, it's hard to hate much about any of this. By November, she had a book deal." This is practically the essence of viral, so it's not too surprising that there's a piece by Anna David in the New York Post today about "Why the women’s lib crowd is going all gooey over the Hollywood heartthrob." Per the book description, "What started as a silly way for blogger Danielle Henderson and her classmates to keep track of the feminist theorists they were studying in class quickly turned into an overnight sensation." As Capital's Miranda Popkey wrote earlier this week, "Henderson put up five images on a Friday in October by Saturday afternoon the Tumblr was on Jezebel the next week it was picked up by The Huffington Post. This is a book that was created from a Tumblr, because that's often how things get done nowadays, and, also like things often get done nowadays, it appears to have arisen nearly spontaneously and fortuitously. įeminist Ryan Gosling, Feminist Theory (as Imagined) from Your Favorite Sensitive Movie Dude, by Danielle Henderson, a book that pairs "feminist statements" with photos of Ryan Gosling, is out on Tuesday. “Penetrating, brutal, a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction.This article is from the archive of our partner. Popkey writes about these emotional eddies with such thrilling detachment you’ll wonder why you ever worried about love at all.” -Jenny Offill, author of Dept. “A pleasingly unsentimental novel about attraction and repulsion and the fluid line between the two. Its narrator is as skeptical of her own self-delusive fictions as she is of the stifling clichés and shallow fantasies about women’s interior lives perpetuated by the wider culture.” -Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! “An intimate evisceration of our narrow imaginings of female sexuality, a brilliantly structured character study, and a book that repeatedly asks how women can fully trust their own desires when they’ve grown up steeped in the wrong stories. Edgy, wry, shot through with rage and despair, Topics of Conversation introduces an audacious and immensely gifted new novelist. The novel is composed almost exclusively of conversations between women-the stories they tell each other, and the stories they tell themselves, about shame and love, infidelity and self-sabotage-and careens through twenty years in the life of an unnamed narrator hungry for experience and bent on upending her life. Miranda Popkey’s first novel is about desire, disgust, motherhood, loneliness, art, pain, feminism, anger, envy, guilt-written in language that sizzles with intelligence and eroticism. She will be joined in conversation by NINA MACLAUGHLIN, the acclaimed author of Wake, Siren. Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome local writer MIRANDA POPKEY for a discussion of her debut novel, Topics of Conversation.
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