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Elissa Schappell

Elissa Schappell
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Elissa Schappell

Elissa Schappell is the author of Blueprints for Building Better Girls and Use Me. She is a contributing editor and the Hot Type book columnist at Vanity Fair, a former senior editor of The Paris Review, and co-founder and now editor-at-large of Tin House magazine. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.

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Blueprints for Building Better Girls is now available in Trade Paperback
Jul 10, 2012
Blueprints for Building Better Girls will be released on July 10, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Jul 10, 2012
Blueprints for Building Better Girls will be released on September 06, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Sep 06, 2011
Blueprints for Building Better Girls is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Sep 06, 2011
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Chapter 7 from Blueprints for Building Better Girls
Aug 16, 2011

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Chronogram Arts Culture Spirt, April 11, 2013
...by Gail Straub. Three writers who have had their pulse on the zeitgeist for many years, Rhoney Stanley, Elissa Schappell, and Alan Light, talk about our favorite subjects--- Drugs, Sex, and Rock & Roll! We're pretty sure most of the audience will be...
Portland Monthly Magazine, April 9, 2013
...s ceremony was hosted by one of Tin House’s founding editors, and now editor at large, Brooklyn-based Elissa Schappell, who warned she would ramble, and then proceeded to do so, prattling on about Twitter, best responses to people asking “if they...
Examiner.com, April 9, 2013
...been announced. Literary Arts hosted the awards ceremony Monday night at the Gerding Theater at the Armory, with Elissa Schappell serving as host.Cheryl Strayed won the People's Choice...
Oregonian, April 9, 2013
...winners live in Portland. The awards are named after writers and literary leaders from the state's past. Elissa Schappell, an editor at Tin House and the author of two books, was the host at the Gerding Theater at the Armory. Schappell's introduction...
Manmade Mag, April 7, 2013
...celebrates the paperback release of Cheryl Strayed's memoir Wild, and will feature the author in conversation with Elissa Schappell. For a chance at winning these books...
Poynter Institute, April 5, 2013
...included Charles Duhigg (The New York Times), Sabrina Rubin Erdely (Rolling Stone), Jason Zengerle (New York magazine), and Elissa Schappell (Tin House, Vanity Fair). A primary goal of Member Picks was to develop a model that pays writers and...
New York Times, February 15, 2013
...terror remained among the tall trees of the park, in the enchanted kingdom of young berries. 1 2 Elissa Schappell is the author of “Blueprints for Building Better Girls,” a collection of linked stories...
Portland Monthly Magazine, January 7, 2013
...the 26th Oregon Book Awards ceremony on April 8, hosted by the novelist and co-founder of Tin House , Elissa Schappell.  Readers' Choice Award  To vote for your favorite book, visit the Oregonian ’s website beginning Wednesday, January 9 th . ...
Huffington Post, January 4, 2013
...re unhappy, nothing can get better as long as the status quo stays the status quo." -- Elissa Schappell, author of Blueprints for Building Better Girls How To Listen Better "Start by doing everything you can to fire up the 'mirror neurons' in your...
Onion AV Club, December 31, 2012
...I swear that the Erin in #7 isn’t me.) 11. Tin House’s Incredibly Specific Books List Elissa Schappell is kind of irritated with lists. “This time of year all anyone can talk about is lists,” she writes. “How particular will these 2012...
Vanity Fair, December 14, 2012
...Still stumped by what to get those hard-to-shop-for types on your holiday gift list? V.F. books columnist Elissa Schappell scours her favorite titles of 2012 for the perfect last-minute present...
San Jose Mercury News, November 24, 2012
...quirks of the chattering classes - see, I can do it, too - over there. New York novelist Elissa Schappell has a hilarious character called Butter in a story in her "Blueprints for Building Better Girls" who, on the strength of one British semester...
New York Magazine, November 20, 2012
...them are in the glare of the films single light and a rented camera. At a front table, Elissa Schappell, Darin Strauss, and Mary Morris pretend to work. Behind them are memoirist-poet Nick Flynn (Another Bullshit Night in Suck City) and Michael...
New York Magazine, November 19, 2012
...them are in the glare of the films single light and a rented camera. At a front table, Elissa Schappell, Darin Strauss, and Mary McGarry Morris pretend to work. Behind them are memoirist-poet Nick Flynn (Another Bullshit Night in Suck City) and Michael...