Alana Massey

Alana Massey is the author of All the Lives I Want, an essay collection exploring the intersection of the personal with pop culture through the lives of iconic women from music, literature, and film. Her writing on identity, culture, vice, and virtue has appeared in/on publications like NPR, NYMag, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The New Republic, The New Inquiry, BuzzFeed, VICE, and more. She enjoys books, champagne, cats, glitter, and money.

http://www.alanakm.com/books/

The Unbearable Niceness of Being

On Niceness in Publishing and Why We Should Ask Men to Do Better

January 13, 2017 By Alana Massey

How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Empty My Shelves

Alana Massey on Books as Lifestyle Objects and Thinning Out Her Collection

June 13, 2016 By Alana Massey

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