Hilton Als reads excerpt from 'White Girls' 2013
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Channel: Strand Book Store · 2013 · Entertainment
Hilton Als reads an excerpt "I'm the Happiness of this World" from his latest book, 'White Girls' at the Strand, December 2013. For more info on 'White Girls' visit: http://www.strandbooks.com/product/white-girls White Girls, Hilton Als's first book since "The Women" fourteen years ago, finds one of The New Yorker's boldest cultural critics deftly weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history. The result is an extraordinary, complex portrait of "white girls," as Als dubs them an expansive but precise category that encompasses figures as diverse as Truman Capote and Louise Brooks, Malcolm X and Flannery O'Connor. In pieces that hairpin between critique and meditation, fiction and non-fiction, high culture and low, the theoretical and the deeply personal, Als presents a stunning portrait of a writer by way of his subjects, and an invaluable guide to the culture of our time.
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