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Summer Brennan

Summer Brennan
Summer Brennan is an award-winning writer and the author of several books, including High Heel (Bloomsbury, 2019), The Oyster War (Counterpoint, 2015), and The Parisian Sphinx: A True Tale of Art and Obsession, forthcoming from Mariner. She writes the Substack newsletter A Writer's Notebook and lives in Paris.


God of Teenage Appetites: On the Undeniable Allure of Meat Loaf

Summer Brennan Revisits the Genius of “I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)”
January 24, 2022  By Summer Brennan
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Nobody Wins in the Age-Old Debate Over High Heels

Do They Convey Authority? Oppression? Frivolity? Confidence? Sex? Yes.
March 14, 2019  By Summer Brennan
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Notes from the Resistance: A Column on Language and Power

Summer Brennan, In Defense of Linguistic Infrastructure
December 9, 2016  By Summer Brennan
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Cohen Dies, Trump Wins, and We Will Sing About These Dark Times

Summer Brennan Discovers Solidarity Amid Despair
November 14, 2016  By Summer Brennan
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On the Heartbreaking Difficulty of Getting Rid of Books

Summer Brennan Attempts Marie Kondo's Approach to Tidying Up Her Library
April 26, 2016  By Summer Brennan
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The Things We Do to Promote the Books We Write

Summer Brennan on Publicity, Social Media, and Marlon James, Chef
March 8, 2016  By Summer Brennan
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A Bikini, a Toothbrush, and 44 Issues of The New Yorker

In Which Summer Brennan Attempts to Catch Up On a Year's Reading
February 11, 2016  By Summer Brennan
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