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...book, a brazen celebration of bad girls and contradiction, was ostensibly not about Wurtzel herself, and the photo triggered uproar among the press, few of whom failed to mention it in reviews. It also helped attract considerable attention among readers, who have unfailingly responded better to Wurtzel than the press and made her books bestsellers...
...seems regrettable that a writer’s airbrushed nipples might garner more discussion than her prose, and Wurtzel admits that the “photo doesn’t represent me at all.” But she insists that, publicity ploys aside, “that picture was just kind of an execution of what I was trying to say, which is that you can be many things all at once. That I felt like feminism hadn’t accomplished its goals if a woman doesn’t get to be many things at once...
Three years ago, in a contentious Time cover story on the future of feminism, Wurtzel, who had just published Bitch, was one of few other young writers and public figures accused of replacing feminist action with self-seeking navel gazing...
Hunched in the chill, we head down a street, past the onetime residence of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. “Does anybody really remember what she wrote?” Wurtzel demands, pointing...
...Wurtzel herself seems confused as to how much she wants to be remembered for her well-crafted pathologies rather than her literature. “I don’t know what to do if I am not inspiring some sort of false fascination,” she confesses in More, Now, Again, in typically articulate reflexivity...