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Girls Gone Old
2016 was a pivotal year for Fiona Helmsley, and on the eve of her 40th birthday, an old friend questioned the subject matter of her writing: why, so often, did Fiona reflect back on the questionable choices she made when she younger—wasn't 40 a good age to “grow up” and move on to more mature subject matter?

A few months after her friend's question, a much more monumental, catastrophic event occurred: professional ignoramus Donald J. Trump was elected president; the ‘80s, the decade Fiona had grown up in, had ascended to the Oval Office, big time.

In Girls Gone Old Fiona Helmsley doesn't answer her friend’s question so much as she subverts it. With new essays about the confluence of ‘80s television, art, and sexual fantasy; addiction and illness; school shootings and serial killers; family; Andy Warhol; and the sleazy (yet sexy) misogyny of Axl Rose, Girls Gone Old rebukes the notion of the self as a lesser muse.

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Girls Gone Old
2016 was a pivotal year for Fiona Helmsley, and on the eve of her 40th birthday, an old friend questioned the subject matter of her writing: why, so often, did Fiona reflect back on the questionable choices she made when she younger—wasn't 40 a good age to “grow up” and move on to more mature subject matter?

A few months after her friend's question, a much more monumental, catastrophic event occurred: professional ignoramus Donald J. Trump was elected president; the ‘80s, the decade Fiona had grown up in, had ascended to the Oval Office, big time.

In Girls Gone Old Fiona Helmsley doesn't answer her friend’s question so much as she subverts it. With new essays about the confluence of ‘80s television, art, and sexual fantasy; addiction and illness; school shootings and serial killers; family; Andy Warhol; and the sleazy (yet sexy) misogyny of Axl Rose, Girls Gone Old rebukes the notion of the self as a lesser muse.

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Girls Gone Old

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Girls Gone Old

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Overview

2016 was a pivotal year for Fiona Helmsley, and on the eve of her 40th birthday, an old friend questioned the subject matter of her writing: why, so often, did Fiona reflect back on the questionable choices she made when she younger—wasn't 40 a good age to “grow up” and move on to more mature subject matter?

A few months after her friend's question, a much more monumental, catastrophic event occurred: professional ignoramus Donald J. Trump was elected president; the ‘80s, the decade Fiona had grown up in, had ascended to the Oval Office, big time.

In Girls Gone Old Fiona Helmsley doesn't answer her friend’s question so much as she subverts it. With new essays about the confluence of ‘80s television, art, and sexual fantasy; addiction and illness; school shootings and serial killers; family; Andy Warhol; and the sleazy (yet sexy) misogyny of Axl Rose, Girls Gone Old rebukes the notion of the self as a lesser muse.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780996421850
Publisher: We Heard You Like Books
Publication date: 08/15/2017
Pages: 200
Sales rank: 1,280,190
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Fiona Helmsley's writing can be found in various anthologies like Ladyland and The Best Sex Writing of the Year and online at websites like The Weeklings, The Hairpin, PANK and The Rumpus. A multiple Pushcart nominee, her book of essays and stories, My Body Would be the Kindest of Strangers was released in 2015. She is an MFA candidate at L’École de Merde.

Table of Contents

My Icon Hates Me 1

Girls Gone Old 15

12 Flash-Non Fictions 31

2002: An Internet Odyssey 45

California Dreaming 63

Ghoul Girl Grows Up 73

Killing Me Softly: On Elliot Rodger and the Power of No 83

My Inner Debbie Gibson 91

Of Mice and Mothers 101

Secondary Sins 109

The Rape Book 121

Playing the Donald Trump Game 143

Vagaries of the Demimonde 157

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