The Coachella Review recently interviewed Emily May.
In her debut essay collection, Some Girls, Emily May scrutinizes the lies girls are force-fed in adolescence. She explores the time period when girls still called their parents from payphones at the mall, wasted time in AOL chat rooms with dial-up internet, and devoured the pages of Cosmopolitan to learn how to unleash the hidden quality that will make you the most magnetic girl in any room. May’s writing is smart and blistering. She’s not afraid to rifle through dark corners and expose the contradictions of humanity. May is also a talented visual artist. Her artwork, like her writing, is drenched in the political. It makes you think.
Some Girls is a love letter to all girls and women trained to shrink themselves and encouraged to perform for the sake of the male gaze. It’s a book for all of us who refuse to do it anymore.
Read the whole interview here. You can also find out more about the book and order it at Free State Review.
