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Thick: And Other Essays Paperback - 2019

by Tressie McMillan Cottom

A New York Times Editor's Choice selection also Shortlisted for the Museum of African American History Stone Book Award. One of today's most intrepid public intellectuals shares her smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and more.

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Enviable Sales Track: nearly 20,000 copies sold in hardcover and over 4,200 e-books.

Expanding 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.

Excellent 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.

Academic celebrity: The American Sociological Association has awarded her the 2019 Doris Entwisle Early Career Award.

Political firebrand: Her congressional testimony, for which she was invited and questioned by Elizabeth Warren, has been heavily publicized.

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  • Title Thick: And Other Essays
  • Author Tressie McMillan Cottom
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Press
  • Date 2019-10-01
  • ISBN 9781620975879 / 1620975874
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.8 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine

About the author

Tressie McMillan Cottom is an associate professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of Lower Ed. Her work has been featured by The Daily Show, the New York Times, the Washington Post, PBS, NPR, Fresh Air, and The Atlantic, among others. In 2020, McMillan Cottom was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.

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