Girls Can Kiss Now
Book Feature - Girls Can Kiss Now by Jill Gutowitz
HBL Note: Vogue, BuzzFeed, Bustle, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, ElectricLit, Thrillist, and Glamour have all named Jill Gutowitz’s GIRLS CAN KISS NOW a “most anticipated” book of 2022. This collection of personal essays explores themes of queerness, relationships, pop culture, the internet, and identity. If you’re a fan of Broad City, Samantha Irby, and Trick Mirror, then you’ll be drawn to Jill Gutowitz’s laugh-out-loud humor and sharp observations. Scroll down to read more about GIRLS CAN KISS NOW.
"Every single sentence glitters, quivers, and shakes with a kind of unhinged lesbian brilliance that is both wickedly funny and deeply self-aware. GIRLS CAN KISS NOW is not only the gayest book of essays I’ve ever read — it’s one of the best." —Gabrielle Korn, author of Everybody (Else) is Perfect
Book Feature - Girls Can Kiss Now by Jill Gutowitz
Book Feature - Girls Can Kiss Now by Jill Gutowitz
From the publisher:
Jill Gutowitz’s life—for better and worse—has always been on a collision course with pop culture. There’s the time the FBI showed up at her door because of something she tweeted about Game of Thrones. The pop songs that have been the soundtrack to the worst moments of her life. And of course, the pivotal day when Orange Is the New Black hit the airwaves and broke down the door to Jill’s own sexuality. In these honest examinations of identity, desire, and self-worth, Jill explores perhaps the most monumental cultural shift of our lifetimes: the mainstreaming of lesbian culture. Dusting off her own personal traumas and artifacts of her not-so-distant youth she examines how pop culture acts as a fun house mirror reflecting and refracting our values—always teaching, distracting, disappointing, and revealing us.
Girls Can Kiss Now is a fresh and intoxicating blend of personal stories, sharp observations, and laugh-out-loud humor. This timely collection of essays helps us make sense of our collective pop-culture past even as it points the way toward a joyous, uproarious, near—and very queer—future.
Book Feature - Girls Can Kiss Now by Jill Gutowitz
