Fast Funny Women by Barreca, Gina;

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"Every man should read this book." —Jay Heinrichs, author of Thank You for Arguing 75 women writers, ages 20 to 89, were invited by editor Gina Barreca to make a party out of their life's most unnerving, challenging, illuminating, desperate, and hilarious moments. You know many of these brilliant women, but you've never heard them like this! With new works commissioned for the book from: Marge Piercy, NYT Bestseller and member of the American Academy of Poets Jane Smiley, Pulitzer-Prize winner Mimi Pond, NYT bestseller graphic artist Liza Donnelly, New Yorker staff cartoonist Fay Weldon, Commander of the British Empire Ilene Beckerman, bestselling author of Love, Loss, and What I Wore Nicole Hollander, Sylvia creator Lisa Landry and Leighann Lord, stand-up comics And many more! Political campaigners, devoted teachers, lousy daughters, good mothers, would-be nuns, admired sportswriters, grad-school-wanna-bes, revenge-driven sisters, frustrated roommates, body-fluid-sorting professionals, lace-loving fashion mavens, intrepid daters, hungry lovers, justice-seeking nasty-women, ACE wedding celebrants, trapped wives, and women with all kinds of ammunition tell their stories—and their stories are all under 750 words.

"Every man should read this book. I learned that nail polish is a form of self-care and that one should not travel overseas with a vibrator in case TSA mistakes it for a bomb. That it's possible to write a poem to Barbie, or to describe sex as an act where 'people stick their genitals together for no apparent gain.' And I learned much, much more." -- Jay Heinrichs, author of Thank You for Arguing