Fast Funny Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction

Gina Barreca

Mar 2021 · Woodhall Press

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Winner, 2021 Foreword INDIES award
"Every man should read this book." —Jay Heinrichs, author of Thank You for Arguing

75 women writers, ages 20 to 89, were invited by editor Gina Barreca to make a party out of their life's most unnerving, challenging, illuminating, desperate, and hilarious moments. You know many of these brilliant women, but you've never heard them like this! With new works commissioned for the book from:

Marge Piercy, NYT Bestseller and member of the American Academy of Poets
Jane Smiley, Pulitzer-Prize winner
Mimi Pond, NYT bestseller graphic artist
Liza Donnelly, New Yorker staff cartoonist
Fay Weldon, Commander of the British Empire
Ilene Beckerman, bestselling author of Love, Loss, and What I Wore
Nicole Hollander, Sylvia creator
Lisa Landry and Leighann Lord, stand-up comics

And many more! Political campaigners, devoted teachers, lousy daughters, good mothers, would-be nuns, admired sportswriters, grad-school-wanna-bes, revenge-driven sisters, frustrated roommates, body-fluid-sorting professionals, lace-loving fashion mavens, intrepid daters, hungry lovers, justice-seeking nasty-women, ACE wedding celebrants, trapped wives, and women with all kinds of ammunition tell their stories—and their stories are all under 750 words.

Winner, 2021 Foreword INDIES award "Every man should read this book." —Jay Heinrichs, author of Thank You for Arguing 75 women writers, ages 20 to 89, were invited by editor Gina Barreca to make a party out of their life's most unnerving, challenging, illuminating, desperate, and hilarious mome...

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Hailed as "smart and funny" by People, Gina Barreca was deemed a "feminist humor maven" by Ms. She has written for most major publications, including The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Cosmopolitan, and The Harvard Business Review. Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at UCONN as well as winner of its highest award for excellence in teaching, Gina's written ten books including If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?; It's Not That I'm Bitter; Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Coeducation in the Ivy League; and the bestselling They Used to Call Me Snow White...but I Drifted.

Hailed as "smart and funny" by People, Gina Barreca was deemed a "feminist humor maven" by Ms. She has written for most major publications, including The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Cosmopolitan, and The Harvard Business Review. Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at ...

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