Elissa Schappell
Author of Blueprints for Building Better Girls
About the Author
Elissa Schappell writes the "Hot Type" column for Vanity Fair and is a founding editor of the new literary magazine Tin House. She received her MFA from the Creative Writing Program at New York University. She has been a senior editor at The Paris Review. She lives in Brooklyn.
Image credit: Courtesy of Squaw Valley Community of Writers
Works by Elissa Schappell
The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away (2005) — Editor; Foreword & contributor — 203 copies
Money Changes Everything: Twenty-Two Writers Tackle the Last Taboo with Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts,… (2007) — Editor — 51 copies
The Joy of Cooking 1 copy
Associated Works
The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage (2002) — Contributor — 692 copies
What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most (2013) — Contributor — 95 copies
Sex and Sensibility: 28 True Romances from the Lives of Single Women (2005) — Contributor — 28 copies
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Contributor — 18 copies
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- Elissa Schappell is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a cofounder of Tin House) [adapted from The Friend Who Got Away (2005)]
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Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction by Elissa Schappell
This got a lot of great reviews and I enjoy short stories from time to time. These were insightful and painful and had a lot of sadness in them all. I'm not sure how to build a better girl, I just hope she has a better life than all of these characters. Maybe it is sad because they sound so utterly true and possible. I'm glad I read it all but am equally glad that I am now done with it.
Honestly, I was so sick of reading this book I skipped the last story. I did enjoy a couple of the stories, "Aren't You Dead Yet", "A Dog Story" and "The Joy of Cooking" but the other stories just didn't hit it for me. I might revisit those particular stories at some point, but I don't see myself revisiting this collection.
Maybe I just need to read more short stories.
Maybe I just need to read more short stories.
4.5 stars
This is a collection of connected short stories. The writing was honest and insightful. This is a super fast, engaging read and a nice palate cleanser after some of the darker things I have read recently. Definitely recommend.
This is a collection of connected short stories. The writing was honest and insightful. This is a super fast, engaging read and a nice palate cleanser after some of the darker things I have read recently. Definitely recommend.
stimulating, insightful, relevant, wry. loved it.
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