Synopses & Reviews
Get comfy, pull up a pan of blondies, and settle in for some girlfriend talk. Get the lowdown on who's low and how's down, whose long-standing but unspoken conflict with her mother is contributing to her sexual repression, and whose boyfriend named his penis. A hysterical send-up of everyday life and love with lots of heart,
Lipshtick is a quick fix, a good schmooze, a heartfelt sob or two.
It will take you on a trip through things universal to all pairs of X chromosomes worth their salt: for coping with social dances in junior high (where the sexes meet like a hormonal high noon) to the joys of plucking out your chin hair like evil weeds; from the natural order of a girl's fantasies (like sweets that don't make you fat, spending that doesn't break the bank, a beautiful nap in the middle of a long day) to why flings with bad boys are the ultimate in dating pleasure (finding the right boy to lust after is a lifelong struggle--eventually you grow to be picky about who rejects you); from getting married (His best quality? He was like family. His worst quality? He was like family.) to the sad state of postnatal breasts. Gwen Macsai cover it all--with a shtick twist. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll thank God you're not her. No situation unaccounted for, no mole left unexamined, Macsai captures a woman's life from her first leg-shave to her last dose of hormone replacement therapy.
When you finish Lipshtick you'll have added another great girlfriend to your already glittering array. And in this world you can't have enough girlfriends or laughter.
Synopsis
In this deliriously funny debut, award-winning National Public Radio essayist Gwen Macsai offers an irreverent, offbeat, and dead-on look at life and womanhood.
Synopsis
In A Series Of Humorous, semi-autobiographical essays -- such as "Beauty and the Breasts, " "A Treatise on the Penis" (balanced, of course, with "The Vagina Gets Equal Time"), and "Flings, Bad Boys, and State Representatives" -- Lipshtick careens through the preoccupations of humorist Gwen Macsai's brain. From her first period to her first baby, from her discovery of a chin hair to the dangers of girls without girlfriends (otherwise known as "GWGs"), Mascai bares womanhood in all its glory and ignominy. Part confession, part neurosis, and thoroughly entertaining, Lipshtick is just that -- a lot of lip with a twist of shtick.
About the Author
Gwen Macsai is an award-winning independent writer and producer whose pieces have aired on National Public Radio over the past nine years. In her thirteen years in radio, Macsai has worked on some of the highest quality programming on the air--All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition. She has won several awards in independent radio production and is trained in improvisational theater. She lives in Evanstaon, Illinois, with her husband, Paul, and their three children.