She turns her chosen form into a showcase for her critical dexterity, investigating everything from Saturday Night Live, LinkedIn, and BBQ Becky to sexual violence, infant mortality, and Trump rallies. This "transgressive, provocative, and brilliant" (Roxane Gay) collection cements McMillan Cottom's position as a public thinker capable of shedding new light on what the "personal essay" can do. Thick "transforms narrative moments into analyses of whiteness, black misogyny, and status-signaling as means of survival for black women" ( Los Angeles Review of Books ) with "writing that is as deft as it is amusing" (Darnell L. Political firebrand: Her congressional testimony, for which she was invited and questioned by Elizabeth Warren, has been heavily publicized.FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Named a Best Book of the Year by Time and Chicago Tribune As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Girl, and Chris Hayes, "incisive, witty, and provocative essays" ( Publishers Weekly ) by one of the "most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time" (Rebecca Traister) " Thick is sure to become a classic." - The New York Times Book Review In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom-award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed -is unapologetically "thick" deemed "thick where I should have been thin, more where I should have been less," McMillan Cottom refuses to shy away from blending the personal with the political, from bringing her full self and voice to the fore of her analytical work.
Enviable Sales Track: nearly 20,000 copies sold in hardcover and over 4,200 e-books.Įxpanding media profile: author has 88,000 Twitter followers she co-hosts a popular podcast, Hear to Slay, with bestselling author Roxane Gay featuring celebrity interviews with Gabrielle Union, Stacey Abrams, and others All In with Chris Hayes guest expert on college admissions scandal author's guest-host interview of Trevor Noah on WNYC's Death, Sex, and Money was widely circulated and praised.Įxcellent Publicity for Previous Books: Thick and Lower Ed were reviewed in the New York Times Book Review the first edition of Thick was serialized in Time, reviewed by LARB, WBUR, San Francisco Chronicle, Book Riot, Chicago Tribune, BuzzFeed, The Millions, and was the March 2019 Well-Read Black Girl pick author has been interviewed on The Daily Show, multiple NPR shows, Amanpour & Company, WITH (Chris Hayes), Slate, and iHeart Radio, among other radio shows and podcasts.Īcademic celebrity: The American Sociological Association has awarded her the 2019 Doris Entwisle Early Career Award.
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