The writer and Internet troll-slayer Lindy West is on the show this week to talk about her great and super funny new book, SHRILL: NOTES FROM A LOUD WOMAN. It came out this week and Lindy’s going to be appearing at Town Hall next week, on May 25, as part of her book tour.
At 1:37, I talk to Lindy, a former Stranger staffer, about her current life as a loud-and-proud feminist warrior who writes for GQ and The Guardian. We also talk about the path that led her to this memoir, which in part explores her time here at The Stranger and her public argument with Dan Savage over how to talk about fat people. Also discussed: What it’s like to pee on the floor of your Seattle public school classroom as a kid, the too-easiness of being a cruel writer, and whether Lindy West—she of nearly 70,000 Twitter followers—might someday be done with Twitter.
After that, at 28:06, some calls to the Blabberphone (206-302-2063!) from people who have some things to say about the way I talked to the leader of University of Washington Students for Donald Trump last week, the way a caller to the Blabberphone talked about women’s basketball last week, and the positive aspects of Donald Trump’s May 7 visit to Lynden, Washington.
Plus, as always, the music of Ahamefule J. Oluo!
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