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White Girls

White Girls Hardcover - 2013

by Hilton Als

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San Francisco, CA: McSweeney's. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 2013. 1st Edition (Unstated). Hardcover. 338 pages; Light wear on DJ spine edges. Stains (very light) to exterior edge of pages only. A few white speckles on front paste down endpaper. ; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. .
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  • Title White Girls
  • Author Hilton Als
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition (Unstated)
  • Condition Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
  • Pages 300
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McSweeney's, San Francisco, CA
  • Date 2013
  • Bookseller's Inventory # HVD-37213-A-0
  • ISBN 9781936365814 / 1936365812
  • Weight 1.53 lbs (0.69 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.15 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.92 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.230

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About the author

Hilton Als became a staff writer at The New Yorker in October, 1994, and a theatre critic in 2002. He began contributing to the magazine in 1989, writing pieces for The Talk of the Town.

Als was a staff writer for The Village Voice and an editor-at-large at Vibe. He has also written articles for The Nation and collaborated on film scripts for "Swoon" and "Looking for Langston."

Als edited the catalog for the Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition entitled "Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art," which ran from November, 1994, to March, 1995. His first book, The Women, a meditation on gender, race, and personal identity, was published in 1996.

In 1997, the New York Association of Black Journalists awarded Als first prize in both Magazine Critique/Review and Magazine Arts and Entertainment. He was awarded a Guggenheim for Creative Writing in 2000 and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for 2002-03. In 2009, Als worked with the performer Justin Bond on "Cold Water," an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and videos by performers, at La MaMa Gallery. In 2010, he co-curated "Self-Consciousness," at the Veneklasen Werner Gallery in Berlin.

Als has taught at Yale University, Wesleyan, and Smith College. He lives in New York City.