Juliet Escoria
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Hell Is a Teenage Girl July 26, 2024
The jacket copy of Juliet Escoria’s fourth book and second story collection, You Are the Snake (Soft Skull, 2024), suggests a boldly feminist, intrepid reading experience—“depths of girlhood and new womanhood and [discovering] oddness, impulse, and y...
It Girls and Nowhere Women July 17, 2024
This is the era of the literary It Girl. While the moniker serves mostly as a branding gimmick, this moment of supposed female literary coolness—if we must call it anything—has produced genuinely interesting, if flawed, writers, such as the ever-pres...
Juliet Escoria Isn’t Afraid of the Dark July 01, 2024
Juliet Escoria isn’t afraid of writing monstrous characters. One story in her new collection, You Are the Snake, is about a bipolar woman and abuse survivor who goes on to abuse her own child. In another, a restaurant cashier wishes for her co-worker...
