“The fetishization of Devon’s body reveals the uncanniness of the ‘normal’ teenage body, held up as the ideal of beauty and desirability though it is, in a sense, incomplete”: Mary Stewart Atwell reviews Megan Abbott’s latest novel.
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Our current feature is Megan Abbott’s new novel, Dare Me, which was published earlier this year by Reagan Arthur Books. She is also the Edgar-winning author of the novels Queenpin, The Song Is You, Die a Little, Bury Me Deep, and The End of Everything. Dare Me is a crime novel set in the world of competitive high school cheerleading. It has been short-listed for the Steel Dagger Award for the Crime Writers’ Association and optioned for a feature film by Fox 2000. Abbott’s writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Believer, […]
Novelist Megan Abbott talks to William Boyle about David Lynch, girls’ locker rooms, haunting cheerleading message boards, and losing your sense of wonder forever.
