All the Women in My Brain, Betty Gilpin
All the Women in My Brain, Betty Gilpin
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All the Women in My Brain
And Other Concerns

Author: Betty Gilpin

Narrator: Betty Gilpin

Unabridged: 8 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/06/2022


Synopsis

This program is read by the author.

A lightning-strike dispatch of hilarious, intimate, luminous essays from the brain (and voice!) of Emmy Award-nominated actress and writer Betty Gilpin.

Oh. Hi. *takes six long gulps of water during which you’re like, may I help you?*

My name is Betty. I have depression. I have passion. I have tits the size of printers. And also: I have a brain full of women.

There’s Blanche VonFuckery, Ingrid St. Rash, and a host of others—some cowering in sweatpants, some howling plans for revolution, and one, oh God, and one . . . slowly vomiting up a crow? Worried for her. These women take turns at the wheel. That’s why I feel like a million selves. With a raised eyebrow and a soul-scalpel, I’d like to tell you how I got this way. Because maybe you feel this way too.

Let’s hop from wild dissections of modern womanhood to boarding school musings to the glossy cringe of Hollywood. Let’s laugh at my failures and then quietly hope with me for the dream. Whether that dream is love or liberation or enough IMDB credits to taze the demon snapping at my ankles, we won’t know until the shit-fanning end.

As a dear friend said after listening to this audiobook, it’s “either a masterpiece, or it’s…completely…” and then she glazed over into a haunted stare. Listener? This audiobook is my opus and it is chaos.

If you’ve ever felt like you were more, or at least weirder, than the world expected—welcome to All the Women in My Brain.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

About Betty Gilpin

Betty Gilpin is an Emmy, Critic’s Choice, and SAG Award–nominated actress and writer whose credits include GLOW, Gaslit, Roar, and Three Women, among others. She has—bravely—fake cried and fake died on your television with many different grasping-at-relevance hair colors. The blonde giveth, and the ginger taketh away. Her essays have been published in The New York Times, Glamour, Lenny Letter, The Hollywood Reporter, and Vanity Fair.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sophie on September 13, 2022

Happy pub day!!!!! All the Women In My Brain ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ * I will be editing to add a quote once it is approved by the publisher '' If you're not familiar with Betty Gilpin, then you're in for a treat. This actress and comedian has written a memoir that is as entertaining as it is brutally honest. Gilpi......more

Goodreads review by Margarita on September 17, 2022

I have followed Betty Gilpin's career since first seeing her on Nurse Jackie. Watching her, I always had a sense that she was a whip-smart weirdo. This fantastically written, quirky-in-all-the-best-ways memoir proves that to be true and then some.......more

Goodreads review by Dakota on August 02, 2022

I would have happily stayed inside betty gilpin’s brain for another 200 pages. This was incredible. It made me feel seen, it inspired me, it shifted something deep inside of my bones. I’m almost positive I was staring at each page in amused wonderment, my eyes wide and my mouth hanging open. On mult......more

Goodreads review by Read By Kyle on August 10, 2022

This was an easy, amusing read. Betty has a lot of wit, humor, and anger that bled through these pages. Not every essay worked for me, but I recognize I'm not the target audience. But for the most part, this was a good read that highlights the terrible ways women are treated in the entertainment ind......more

Goodreads review by Linda on October 23, 2022

Most of the time, I couldn't figure out what she was talking about. I gave up 30% through.......more