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Typical Girls: New Stories by Smart Women

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Typical Girls: New Stories by Smart Women

Author(s): Susan Corrigan

  • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
  • Publication Date: June 12, 1999
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 208 pages
  • ISBN-10: 0312206798
  • ISBN-13: 9780312206796

Book Description


Feminism is redefined for the approaching millennium with this new collection of vibrant fiction from a group of female writers that include Poppy Z. Brite, Jennifer Belle, Guinevere Turner, and many others. These women display fierce wit, deadpan insight, and deeply affecting verbal dexterity in this one-of-a-kind anthology. This network of female fiction ranges from adolescent angst revisited to the harsh realities of the squatting life, from tales of overweight schoolgirls to dreams of outer space. Often funny and always relevant, this is a brash and disparate collection that speaks to single mothers, schoolgirls, Riot Grrls, radical feminists, and all women in between.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

By and large the contributors to this anthology are hipsters first, writers second. The writer bios include such details as “played a lead role as a dominatrix” and “had a story optioned for the screen by Madonna.” Could an “unhip” girl have made it into Typical Girls? Probably not, and since most good writers are dorky hermits, this collection definitely reads like amateur night. A story called “Saved,” cowritten by Poppy Z. Brite and Christa Faust, contains this howler of a line: “Billy felt an orgasm stalking him.” There are lots of warmed-over ’80s sex shockers–Mary Gaitskill without the poetic undertow. Nevertheless there are some good moments: Throwing Muses singer Kristen Hersh offers something between a journal entry and a manifesto with “The Snowballing of Alt.Rock.” It’s a nice, chatty piece you wouldn’t find in either a music magazine or a literary journal. The standout is Guinevere Turner’s “Cookie and Me.” Turner cowrote the film Go Fish, and she’s a true writer’s writer, with a warm, ironic, and hopeful vision. “Cookie and Me” is the story of a drunken cab ride where the narrator tries to pick up on the driver, only to find later that the whole thing was filmed, MTV Real World-style, and is being shown over and over on television. The story keeps reflecting back on itself, the girl in the cab becomes the girl on television, someone entirely alien. Turner knows what she’s doing and where she is going. Among all the cool kids, she’s the one the dorks can trust. –Emily White

From Kirkus Reviews

Fifteen stories by mostly unknown women from the US and Britain that attempt to portray the thrill and spontaneity found on the street or in the playground of the mind. Editor Corrigan is obviously on intimate terms with the pop music scene in London and New York, since many of her selections are set in or around this world. Claire and Darlene (in Completely Overloaded) are a couple of bisexual club kids who get stoned together and carry on a lesbian affair for a while before breaking up, while the narrator of Tuberama is another music chick from London (The guy in the record shop was disgusted at my request for Dougal and the Blue Cats I Am The King of All The World, and told me to Fack Off in a half-sarcastic yet offensive sort of way) who creates an elaborate song- and-dance fantasy in her head while riding the Underground one afternoon. Naturally, boy troubles consume much of everyones attention: The Book of Nick describes the tense relations that develop between a girl and her ex-boyfriend after she publishes a novel describing their breakup, while the narrator of Schering PC4” learns that her boyfriend has been unfaithful when she develops chlamydia. The Indelible Hulk concerns an overweight womans strained relations with her outgoing and promiscuous girlfriend. Although some of the works seem merely pointless (Albert Bert and Andy is a handwritten account of life among young squatters in an English slum), otherssuch as Saved (a young man has kinky sex with a male prostitute and kills him in the process)are positively disgusting. Still, there are flashes of good humor: in Cookie and Me, a drunken lesbian tries to pick up a female cabbie, unaware that shes being secretly filmed for a TV show. Slim pickings overall, though with moments (and not much more) of wit. — Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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