https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/chipublib/rss/search?query=West%2C%20Lindy&searchType=author&origin=core-catalog-explore&view=groupedRSS for NodeWed, 07 Oct 2026 21:27:13 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2678378https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2678378Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2678378126BKDriving Myself Saneenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780306831836/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=A NATIONAL BESTSELLER * AN AMAZON BEST MEMOIR OF 2026
In New York Times bestselling author Lindy West's ambitious memoir, she brings readers along on an uproarious cross-country road trip as she unpacks her last few tumultuous years, rediscovers herself, and reinvents her marriage in the process. 
 
Through Shrill—the book and then the Hulu series—Lindy West became an inspiration. To this day she is stopped on the street and hailed as a beacon of empowerment by women who felt badly for not conforming to a narrow set of societal norms—thin, straight, compliant. But behind the scenes, Lindy never felt like she was the self-actualized woman fans made her out to be. When she found herself in the throes of a deep depression, with her marriage and sense of self-worth hanging in the balance, she knew she needed to make a change.  
 
In Adult Braces, Lindy shares the story of her rock bottom, and of the journey she took to claw her way out of it. With her trademark candor and sense of humor, she examines her post-Shrill emotional implosion, her shifting feelings about traditional marriage, and her search for her long-lost self. She also tracks the highs and lows of her journey, from eye-opening natural wonders and kitschy roadside attractions to lackluster tourist traps and campground epiphanies.
 
The result is an engaging and laugh-out-loud narrative of becoming as Lindy transforms from a passenger into the active navigator of her own life.
 
 

]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C12050578https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C12050578Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/12050578980EBOOKDriving Myself Saneenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780306831850/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2206167https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2206167Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2206167126BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316449885/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1743232https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1743232Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1743232126BKNotes From A Loud Womanenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316348409/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the New York Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era.
This is a witch hunt. We're witches, and we're hunting you.
From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In The Witches Are Coming, Lindy West, turns that refrain on its head. You think this is a witch hunt? Fine. You've got one.
In a laugh-out-loud, incisive cultural critique, West extolls the world-changing magic of truth, urging readers to reckon with dark lies in the heart of the American mythos, and unpacking the complicated, and sometimes tragic, politics of not being a white man in the twenty-first century. She tracks the misogyny and propaganda hidden (or not so hidden) in the media she and her peers devoured growing up, a buffet of distortions, delusions, prejudice, and outright bullsh*t that has allowed white male mediocrity to maintain a death grip on American culture and politics—and that delivered us to this precarious, disorienting moment in history.
We cannot understand how we got here‚—how the land of the free became Trump's America—without examining the chasm between who we are and who we think we are, without fact-checking the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and each other. The truth can transform us; there is witchcraft in it. Lindy West turns on the light.]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3778834https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3778834Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3778834980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316449892/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny.
Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible — like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you — writer and humoristLindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but.
From a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions; to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jokes; to her struggle to convince herself, and then the world, that fat people have value; to her accidental activism and never-ending battle royale with Internet trolls, Lindy narrates her life with a blend of humor and pathos that manages to make a trip to the abortion clinic funny and wring tears out of a story about diarrhea.
With inimitable good humor, vulnerability, and boundless charm, Lindy boldly shares how to survive in a world where not all stories are created equal and not all bodies are treated with equal respect, and how to weather hatred, loneliness, harassment, and loss, and walk away laughing. Shrill provocatively dissects what it means to become self-aware the hard way, to go from wanting to be silent and invisible to earning a living defending the silenced in all caps.]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2387353https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2387353Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2387353980EBOOKNotes from a Loud Womanenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316348454/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1809275https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1809275Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1809275126PAPERBACKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316348461/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1766520https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1766520Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1766520126BOOK_CDNotes From A Loud Womanenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781478964872/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2266846https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2266846Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2266846126BKThe Definitive 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinemaenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316449823/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=Firebrand NY Times columnist and bestselling author Lindy West unpacks the beloved rom-coms and cult classics we love in order to dissect the culture we've created.
 
Lindy West was once the in-house movie critic for Seattle's alternative newsweekly The Stranger, where she covered film with brutal honesty and giddy irreverence. In Shit, Actually, Lindy returns to those roots, re-examining beloved and iconic movies from the past 40 years with an eye toward the big questions of our time: Is Twilight the horniest movie in history? Why do the zebras in The Lion King trust Mufasa—WHO IS A LION—to look out for their best interests? Why did anyone bother making any more movies after The Fugitive achieved perfection? And, my god, why don't any of the women in Love, Actually ever fucking talk?!?!
From Forrest Gump, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and Bad Boys II, to Face/Off, Top Gun, and The Notebook, Lindy combines her razor-sharp wit and trademark humor with a genuine adoration for nostalgic trash to shed new critical light on some of our defining cultural touchstones—the stories we've long been telling ourselves about who we are.
At once outrageously funny and piercingly incisive, Shit, Actually reminds us to pause and ask, "How does this movie hold up?", all while teaching us how to laugh at the things we love without ever letting them or ourselves off the hook.
Shit, Actually is a love letter and a break-up note all in one: to the films that shaped us and the ones that ruined us. More often than not, Lindy finds, they're one and the same.
One of the "Best Books of 2020" by NPR's Book Concierge**Your Favorite Movies, Re-Watched**
]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5255209https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5255209Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5255209980EBOOKThe Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinemaenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316449847/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=In her most ambitious memoir yet, bestselling author Lindy West takes listeners on a funny and unfiltered cross-country road trip through the most chaotic period of her life. Exclusive self-recorded voice memos captured on the road give this audiobook a raw, real-time immediacy as she rediscovers herself and reinvents her marriage in the process.
 
Through Shrill—the book and then the Hulu series—Lindy West became an inspiration. To this day she is stopped on the street and hailed as a beacon of empowerment by women who felt badly for not conforming to a narrow set of societal norms—thin, straight, compliant. But behind the scenes, Lindy never felt like she was the self-actualized woman fans made her out to be. When she found herself in the throes of a deep depression, with her marriage and sense of self-worth hanging in the balance, she knew she needed to make a change.  
 
In Adult Braces, Lindy shares the story of her rock bottom, and of the journey she took to claw her way out of it. With her trademark candor and sense of humor, she examines her post-Shrill emotional implosion, her shifting feelings about traditional marriage, and her search for her long-lost self. She also tracks the highs and lows of her journey, from eye-opening natural wonders and kitschy roadside attractions to lackluster tourist traps and campground epiphanies.
 
The result is an engaging and laugh-out-loud narrative of becoming as Lindy transforms from a passenger into the active navigator of her own life.
Includes an illustrated map of Lindy's journey.  
 
 ]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C12050555https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C12050555Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/12050555980EAUDIOBOOKDriving Myself Saneenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668653876/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=Firebrand NY Times columnist and bestselling author Lindy West unpacks the beloved rom-coms and cult classics we love in order to dissect the culture we've created.
 
Lindy West was once the in-house movie critic for Seattle's alternative newsweekly The Stranger, where she covered film with brutal honesty and giddy irreverence. In Shit, Actually, Lindy returns to those roots, re-examining beloved and iconic movies from the past 40 years with an eye toward the big questions of our time: Is Twilight the horniest movie in history? Why do the zebras in The Lion King trust Mufasa—WHO IS A LION—to look out for their best interests? Why did anyone bother making any more movies after The Fugitive achieved perfection? And, my god, why don't any of the women in Love, Actually ever fucking talk?!?!
From Forrest Gump, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and Bad Boys II, to Face/Off, Top Gun, and The Notebook, Lindy combines her razor-sharp wit and trademark humor with a genuine adoration for nostalgic trash to shed new critical light on some of our defining cultural touchstones—the stories we've long been telling ourselves about who we are.
At once outrageously funny and piercingly incisive, Shit, Actually reminds us to pause and ask, "How does this movie hold up?", all while teaching us how to laugh at the things we love without ever letting them or ourselves off the hook.
Shit, Actually is a love letter and a break-up note all in one: to the films that shaped us and the ones that ruined us. More often than not, Lindy finds, they're one and the same.
One of the "Best Books of 2020" by NPR's Book Concierge**Your Favorite Movies, Re-Watched**]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5626405https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5626405Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5626405980EAUDIOBOOKThe Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinemaenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781549141584/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the New York Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era.
This is a witch hunt. We're witches, and we're hunting you.
From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In The Witches Are Coming, Lindy West, turns that refrain on its head. You think this is a witch hunt? Fine. You've got one.
In a laugh-out-loud, incisive cultural critique, West extolls the world-changing magic of truth, urging readers to reckon with dark lies in the heart of the American mythos, and unpacking the complicated, and sometimes tragic, politics of not being a white man in the twenty-first century. She tracks the misogyny and propaganda hidden (or not so hidden) in the media she and her peers devoured growing up, a buffet of distortions, delusions, prejudice, and outright bullsh*t that has allowed white male mediocrity to maintain a death grip on American culture and politics—and that delivered us to this precarious, disorienting moment in history.
We cannot understand how we got here‚—how the land of the free became Trump's America—without examining the chasm between who we are and who we think we are, without fact-checking the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and each other. The truth can transform us; there is witchcraft in it. Lindy West turns on the light.]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C4559357https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C4559357Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4559357980EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781549141591/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny.
Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible — like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you — writer and humoristLindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but.
From a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions; to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jokes; to her struggle to convince herself, and then the world, that fat people have value; to her accidental activism and never-ending battle royale with Internet trolls, Lindy narrates her life with a blend of humor and pathos that manages to make a trip to the abortion clinic funny and wring tears out of a story about diarrhea.
With inimitable good humor, vulnerability, and boundless charm, Lindy boldly shares how to survive in a world where not all stories are created equal and not all bodies are treated with equal respect, and how to weather hatred, loneliness, harassment, and loss, and walk away laughing. Shrill provocatively dissects what it means to become self-aware the hard way, to go from wanting to be silent and invisible to earning a living defending the silenced in all caps.]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2636930https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2636930Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2636930980EAUDIOBOOKNotes from a Loud Womanenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781478909309/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2210202https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2210202Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2210202126BOOK_CDenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781549142857/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=