The conversation here extends in many directions, including approaching Blueprints as an anti-etiquette book, recent forays into cross-genre writing, and Grace Paley as a guiding light. ![]() Schappell’s wit is one that allows her “to tell the truth and not die,” as she puts it. Schappell approaches the chronicling of women’s lives as a serious endeavor, but never fails to leverage darkness with humor. As a series of interlinked stories that depicts women across generations, Blueprints for Building Better Girls encourages a burning of old blueprints in favor of forging new paths. Her first book, Use Me, was a runner up for the Pen/Hemingway Award, and her most recent, Blueprints for Building Better Girls, was named a best book of the year by multiple media outlets, including The San Francisco Chronicle and The Wall Street Journal. ![]() However, none of this should overshadow her literary accomplishments. If there were a contest to name a literary wonder woman, I would without hesitation elect Elissa Schappell, who is never without wit or an incisive quip, who pens the Hot Type column for Vanity Fair, and keeps her hand firmly in the lit scene as co-founder and editor-at-large of Tin House she is also a lit champion extraordinaire, an active proponent of women’s rights, and a mother.
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