Elissa Schappell
Elissa Schappell writes the Hot Type column for Vanity Fair, is a founding editor of the literary magazine Tin House, and co-edited The Friend That Got Away. She received her MFA from the Creative Writing Program at New York University. She has been a senior editor at The Paris Review and has contributed to numerous other magazines. Her first book, Use Me, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She lives in Brooklyn.
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Blueprints for Building Better Girls
- By: Elissa Schappell
- Narrator: Julia Whelan
- Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: September 06, 2011
- Language: English
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Elissa Schappell’s book delves into the lives of an eclectic cast of archetypal female characters including the high school slut, the party girl, the reluctant mother, and the anorexic daughter, twisting our pre-conceived notions of who these... Read more
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