So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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This is my favorite of Michelle Tea's books. It has her signature plainspoken, confessional punk prose, but here she employs her style to illuminate a working class childhood rather than some uber-cool grrl scene (not that there's anything wrong with uber-cool grrl scenes). One of the most realistic accounts of kid-thinking that I've read.
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The Chelsea Whistle by Michelle Tea
Meadowbat, September 5, 2007
This is my favorite of Michelle Tea's books. It has her signature plainspoken, confessional punk prose, but here she employs her style to illuminate a working class childhood rather than some uber-cool grrl scene (not that there's anything wrong with uber-cool grrl scenes). One of the most realistic accounts of kid-thinking that I've read.(5 of 8 readers found this comment helpful)
Meadowbat, September 5, 2007
An academic and sometimes dry (but no more so than other history texts) account of a fascinating country.(1 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)