Lindy West

West is a hometown hero for me. I'm a fan. I was always going to like this book. But I will say SHRILL sort of rocked my world because it really changed how I felt about how pervasive and acceptable anti-fat ideas and policies are. WITCHES is confident, funny, true and feminist, but it didn't have much for me that was new. The same is true of TRICK MIRROR, which I also liked a lot. I feel like Lindy and Jia are writing on some level for posterity. I didn't need to read their books to understand that Trump is the worst, that climate change is an emergency, that feminism has issues, etc. Still, I enjoyed reading their books.… (mere)