It's Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me

'A brutal and brilliant study of female celebrity' Megan Nolan, Telegraph

Philippa Snow (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2026
Virago Press Ltd (Verlag)
9780349017709 (ISBN)

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A collection of essays exploring femininity, self-image and performance in the lives of iconic famous women

*One of the Telegraph's Greatest Books of 2025*

'A brutal and brilliant study of female celebrity ... a joy to read, fizzing with intelligence' Megan Nolan, Telegraph

'Wildly entertaining' Dazed

'Snow's prose is beautiful, white-hot and breathless, like a sports car speeding through the canyon' Observer
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How does an icon become an icon? How did Anna Nicole Smith model herself on Marilyn Monroe? What connects Lindsay Lohan with Elizabeth Taylor? How is self-made beauty Pamela Anderson like trans Bond girl Caroline 'Tula' Cossey?

In a series of interconnected essays about pairs of famous women, award-nominated essayist and art critic Philippa Snow explores the echoes and connections between a constellation of female stars and lays bare the artful and gruelling demands of femininity - from the golden age of Hollywood to the Instagram era. Full of the fascinating, entertaining and lurid details you might expect from the lives of mega-famous celebrities, dissected with icicle-sharp intelligence and rendered in stylish, flamboyant prose, Philippa Snow's first full-length non-fiction work is a radically insightful book about the complex meanings and layers of femininity in a male-dominated world.

Philippa Snow is a writer based in Norwich. Her reviews and essays have appeared in publications including Artforum, the Los Angeles Review of Books, ArtReview, Frieze, the White Review, Vogue, the New Statesman, the TLS, and the New Republic. She was shortlisted for the 2020 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, and Which As You Know Means Violence was published by Repeater Books in 2022.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.7.2026
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	126 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9780349017709 / 9780349017709
Zustand	Neuware