Jenn Shapland
Author of My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
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- Jenn Shapland is a writer and archivist living in New Mexico. Her first book, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award and the Southern Book Prize, and won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award, the Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award, and the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award. Shapland has a PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin, where her dissertation, Narrative Salvage, focused on wastescapes in contemporary literature. She currently works as an archivist for a visual artist.
Her second book, Thin Skin, will be published by Pantheon Books. Her essays have appeared in New England Review, the New York Times, Outside, Guernica, and Tin House. Her research and writing have been supported by residencies at Yaddo, Ucross, and Vermont Studio Center and by fellowships from the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and the Howard Foundation.
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My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland
Beautiful and interesting. But still, DNF
Calling this at page 174. She writes prettily while talking shit, so I am giving it two stars,
Her knowledge of history and her applied logic are ridiculously flawed. She cancels her Chase card and in doing so harms her credit at a time she and her partner are trying to get a mortgage. She cancels the card because she learns that 200 years ago the company that is now Chase used slave labor. She is then incensed that a lender finds the fact that she has no consistent source of credit makes her a bad credit risk, and is saddened that her decision to cancel her credit card because of something that happened 200 years ago is not celebrated by the lender. I can't hate her because it seems like it would be dreadful to be her. I am going to just make a slightly enhanced version of my last update my review.
The woman can write, but also she is insufferable. I am not buying into the worldview of a White upper-middle class socialist with a shopping addiction who natters on about how chemicals are bad. (Newsflash -- chemicals make up most everything. Some are naturally occurring and some are not. Natural doesn't mean good, so when your partner offers up 100% natural heirloom hemlock with a sprinkling of cyanide for breakfast just say no.)… (more)
Her knowledge of history and her applied logic are ridiculously flawed. She cancels her Chase card and in doing so harms her credit at a time she and her partner are trying to get a mortgage. She cancels the card because she learns that 200 years ago the company that is now Chase used slave labor. She is then incensed that a lender finds the fact that she has no consistent source of credit makes her a bad credit risk, and is saddened that her decision to cancel her credit card because of something that happened 200 years ago is not celebrated by the lender. I can't hate her because it seems like it would be dreadful to be her. I am going to just make a slightly enhanced version of my last update my review.
The woman can write, but also she is insufferable. I am not buying into the worldview of a White upper-middle class socialist with a shopping addiction who natters on about how chemicals are bad. (Newsflash -- chemicals make up most everything. Some are naturally occurring and some are not. Natural doesn't mean good, so when your partner offers up 100% natural heirloom hemlock with a sprinkling of cyanide for breakfast just say no.)… (more)
This was a good book in many ways. I liked how the writer formatted it and her concise wording. Very insightful.
I enjoyed this book, it had a lot of fascinating insights and I learned a lot of interesting things. However, there was no wow factor to me, and nothing that really made me want to keep reading. I would recommend if you are looking to learn more about LGBTQ+ history and culture.
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