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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 will be released on July 10, 2012 in Trade Paperback
May 19, 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
Excerpt:
Chapter 7 from Blueprints for Building Better Girls
Aug 16, 2011

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Toronto Star Online, April 27, 2012
...The Noonday Demon, on depression (author lies down in mud, can’t get up); and Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell’s The Friend Who Got Away, on female betrayal (same deal). Everyone thinks management’s out to get them. But how do you endure it? In...
Forbes.com, April 18, 2012
...and LIVE on our Facebook page. This month we’re talking about Blueprints For Building Better Girls by Elissa Schappell. When women become friends, whether it’s on the playground as children, during the rush for a sorority or back on the playground...
Forbes.com, April 11, 2012
...and LIVE on our Facebook page. This month we’re talking about Blueprints For Building Better Girls by Elissa Schappell. The slut. The good girl. The party girl. The anorexic. The starving artist. The single mom. The childless wife. The reluctant...
Time Out New York, March 9, 2012
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Fort Greene Clinton Hill Patch, March 8, 2012
...00 pm Princeton Review Class Sat, Mar 10, 1:00 pm–8:30 pm Gotham: Writers in the City: Elissa Schappell Sat, Mar 10, 4:00 pm Saturday Family Programs @ Central Library Weekly on Saturdays, 1:00 pm Classical Interludes January 22, 2012 / January 29,...
Time Out Chicago, February 23, 2012
...to the stage that night. The lineup is exceptionally strong, featuring Daniel Nester (God Save My Queen) and Elissa Schappell (Blueprints for Building Better Girls). The final night of the conference features two exciting readings. Columbia’s Silver...
Time Out Chicago, February 22, 2012
...to the stage that night. The lineup is exceptionally strong, featuring Daniel Nester (God Save My Queen) and Elissa Schappell (Blueprints for Building Better Girls). The final night of the conference features two exciting readings. Columbia’s Silver...
Austin American Statesman, February 24, 2012
...to the case within 24 business hours. Texas State University will host a reading by author and editor Elissa Schappell. She will speak and sign copies of her novel "Use Me" at 7:30 p.m. today at Literary Center, 508 Center St. in Kyle. The event is free...
Time Out Chicago, February 23, 2012
...to the stage that night. The lineup is exceptionally strong, featuring Daniel Nester (God Save My Queen) and Elissa Schappell (Blueprints for Building Better Girls). The final night of the conference features two exciting readings. Columbia’s Silver...
Time Out Chicago, February 22, 2012
...to the stage that night. The lineup is exceptionally strong, featuring Daniel Nester (God Save My Queen) and Elissa Schappell (Blueprints for Building Better Girls). The final night of the conference features two exciting readings. Columbia’s Silver...
Park Slope Patch, February 14, 2012
...Location: Central Library 10 Grand Army Plz, Brooklyn, NY When: March 10, 2012 Time: 4:00 pm Schappell reads from her new fiction book,  Blueprints for Building Better Girls , which maps America's shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to...
Prospect Heights Patch, February 14, 2012
...Location: Central Library 10 Grand Army Plz, Brooklyn, NY When: March 10, 2012 Time: 4:00 pm Schappell reads from her new fiction book,  Blueprints for Building Better Girls , which maps America's shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to...
CBS New York, February 8, 2012
...take the stage try to get the audience to sing along. Amanda Stern, Adam Wilson, Hannah Pittard, and Elissa Schappell will be giving readings with musical guest Amy Correia. You can also enjoy live cartooning by Michael Arthur. Event begins at 7 p.m. and...
Media Bistro, February 6, 2012
...See him on Tuesday, February 7th at Skylight Books starting 7:30 p.m. (Los Angeles, CA) Writer Elissa Schappell will appear at the� next session in the Happy Ending Reading Series. The theme of the night will be ?American Ethos.?� on Wednesday,...