And then, in a strange turn of events, Bitch's editor-in-chief Kjerstin Johnson killed it when Moran tweeted, on Oct. Our conversation had been commissioned by Bitch magazine. 6 (it’s already out in the U.K.): 'Moranthology,' a collection of essays from her columns at the Times, where she has been writing since 1992. So I was eager to interview her about feminism, with her new book publishing here on Nov. But I was also taken with her raw candor, a feminist who just told it like she saw it, in a world so determined to shut women up.

Reading her book gave me a sense of what my life might have been like had we stayed. I felt an instant kinship with her since my working-class parents had fled with me in tow to the United States to escape a system that kept them bound to their class status. version of Tina Fey's Bossypants.You will laugh out loud, wince, and-in my case-feel proud to be the same gender as the author.I first fell for Times of London columnist Caitlin Moran when I read her memoir-cum-feminist-treatise “How to Be a Woman” - laughing out loud as she evoked the experience of growing up working-class in England.

Now poised to take American womanhood by storm, here is a book that Vanity Fair calls 'the U.K. 'Half memoir, half polemic, and entirely necessary,' (Elle UK), Moran's debut was an instant runaway bestseller in England as well as an Amazon UK Top Ten book of the year still riding high on bestseller lists months after publication, it is a bona fide cultural phenomenon. I don't want to be like her-I want to be her.' -Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My DaughterĬaitlin Moran puts a new face on feminism, cutting to the heart of women's issues today with her irreverent, transcendent, and hilarious How to Be a Woman. 'Caitlin Moran is so fabulous, so funny, so freshly feminist.

She's the feminist rock star we need right now.' -Ayelet Waldman, author of Bad Mother 'Caitlin Moran is the profane, witty and wonky best friend I wish I had. The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback- 'Half memoir, half polemic, and entirely necessary,' (Elle UK) Caitlin Moran's debut-an instant runaway bestseller in the UK-puts a new face on feminism, cutting to the heart of issues with an irreverent, transcendent, and hilarious touch.

How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran