Lilly Dancyger is the memoir editor at Narratively, a contributing editor at Catapult and assistant books editor at Barrelhouse. Her essays and journalism on sex, politics and culture have appeared in Rolling Stone, the Rumpus, the Washington Post, Psychology Today and more. Dancyger is at work on a memoir about her father's art and heroin addiction and the legacy of both in her life. She lives in New York.
"Burn It Down is a potent literary offering--a revolution born
within the collective rage--expressed, unleashed, sublimated, and
capsuled to honor our feminist legacy. Scorched earth speaks
through these brilliant women who teach us that vulnerability and
ire writ large will save those who have been shamed and condemned.
Glorious, punk as hell, and utterly necessary."--Sophia Shalmiyev,
award-winning author of Mother Winter
"Burn It Down is deeply affirming for any woman who has struggled
with anger in this difficult world. There is no judgment here; only
alchemy."
--Kelly Sundberg, author of Goodbye, Sweet Girl
"Burn It Down is both educational and cathartic. It infuriates and
simultaneously relieves."--Bust
"Burn It Down legit changed my brain. I found myself thinking about
anger in general and women's anger in particular in a whole new
way, and seeing how reigning in and policing our anger has been
sustaining patriarchal structures for centuries. Read this
beautiful book and feel your beautiful rage."--The Rumpus
"An extraordinary collection of talent."--NPR.org
"Brutally honest and enlightening."--Washington Independent Review
of Books
"Comprising essays from an amazing cast of contributors...this
cathartic and incendiary anthology rages against the notion that
women should temper their fury."--OprahMag.com
"Dancyger collects essays from 22 female writers contemplating (and
unleashing) anger, continuing the #MeToo ethos of emotional
transparency and righteous indignation, to bracing and powerful
effect. The writers are a diverse group and cover a wide range of
experiences.... [Burn It Down is] a cathartic and often inspiring
reading experience."--Publishers Weekly
"If you've got a fired-up woman on your list (or a man who needs to
hear about it) they'll find communion in this cathartic anthology
of women writing about anger, how it drives us, how it consumes us,
and how we can use it as fuel."--Good Housekeeping
"It's the literary equivalent of screaming into a pillow, and
reading it will make you feel so much less
alone."--HelloGiggles
"More necessary than ever."--Bustle
"Powerful and provocative, this collection is an instructive read
for anyone seeking to understand the many faces--and pains--of
womanhood in 21st-century America."--Kirkus Reviews
"Practically hot to the touch."-- BookPage (most anticipated fall
nonfiction)
"The twenty-two essays collected in Burn It Down are a gift of
sanity and clear-eyed moral vision in an increasingly degraded
moral world. This book galvanizes women's collective and individual
rage, even as it redefines how we could and should understand that
anger--and ourselves."--Lacy M. Johnson, author of The Reckonings
and The Other Side
"This book gives powerful voice to women's rage in all its
glory."--Pacific Standard
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