Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic

Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic

Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic

Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic

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Overview

A feminist anthology inspired by legendary Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown’s Sex and the Single Girl, featuring twenty-four new essays on the triumphs and heartbreaks of modern singlehood from acclaimed and bestselling authors, including Kristen Arnett, Morgan Parker, Evette Dionne, and Melissa Febos.

Sixty years ago, Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl sent shockwaves through the United States, selling more than two million copies in three weeks. Helen’s message was radical for its time: marriage wasn’t essential for women to lead rich, fulfilling lives.

Now, in these critical, wry, and expansive essays, twenty-four writers reconsider Helen’s advice and how it applies to their own paths, fielding topics that she couldn’t—or wouldn’t—conceive of in 1962: contraception and abortion (an omission demanded by her publisher), queer and trans womanhood, polyamory, celibacy, interracial dating, bodies of all kinds, consent, sex work, IVF, and the pop culture that both saves and fails us.

Eliza Smith and Haley Swanson’s revisionist anthology honors Brown’s irreverent spirit while also validating our modern experiences of singlehood, encouraging us all to reclaim joy where it’s so often been denied.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798200970841
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 05/17/2022
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 5.70(h) x (d)

About the Author

Eliza Smith is a writer and editor based in Missoula, Montana. Her work has appeared in The Cut, The Offing, Indiana Review, and elsewhere and has been awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. She earned her MA in magazine writing from the Missouri School of Journalism and MFA in creative nonfiction from Ohio State. She works as the Audience Development Editor at Literary Hub.


Haley Swanson is a writer and editor based in New York. Her essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Glamour, Electric Literature, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, and elsewhere. She is an MFA candidate at Sarah Lawrence College.



Gail Shalan is a storyteller based in New York City. She has narrated books for Tantor, HighBridge, Blackstone, Chatterbox Audio with Audible UK, Spoken Realms, and more. She is also a narrator and producer on The StoryLight Podcast (available wherever you listen to podcasts). She holds an MFA in acting from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has worked in both the US and UK in theater, film, and voice-over. Gail is also a puppeteer and one half of the International folk duo The Strange Bedfellows.
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