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White Girls

By: Hilton Als
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
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"This book will change you." (Chicago Tribune)

White Girls 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.

Cover photograph: World's Fair, New York, 1964 © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

©2013 Hilton Als (P)2021 Penguin Audio Anthologies & Short Stories Biographies & Memoirs Essays Fiction Lambda Literary Award Literature & Fiction Nonfiction Short Story

Critic reviews

A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award in LGBT Nonfiction

One of the A.V. Club’s Favorite Books of the Year

One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2013

“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, Los Angeles Times)

“Effortless, honest and fearless.” (Rich Benjamin, The New York Times Book Review)

“A comprehensive and utterly lovely collection of one of the best writers around.” (Eugenia Williamson, Boston Globe)

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The final essay on queer misremembering “It Will Soon Be Here” caps off a superb collection of essays that took me to many people. Als is insightful on Black and/or Queer cultures. I loved his pieces on Michael Jackson, Truman Capote, and Richard Pryor. Als is a real talent. I look forward to reading more of his work that I first heard in The New Yorker: the Matter of Black Lives.

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