Crush

I won a copy of this book in a Goodreads giveaway. This is a fun read as authors write about their first celebrity crushes. I think most of remember a time in our youth that we developed a crush on someone unattainable. As you would imagine, some writers had crushes on musicians, actors, athletes, e......more

A couple of years ago, I stumbled onto one of my old journals, roughly chronicling ages 12-17 in my life. One of the more cringeworthy entries involved my total obsessions with whatever man I enjoyed on television or movies. A lot of those crushes I still have now but with age came practical perspec......more

This is a collection of essays (by writers, some of whom I was familiar with and some not) about first celebrity crushes. Some of the essays were long, some were short. Some were quite interesting, and some, not so much (I fast forwarded through a few). I think most appealing were those crushes from......more

i read this for my lit class. it was bad.......more

It's a compilation so there are some high highs (Roxane Gay on Almanzo Wilder, Emily Gould on Jared Leto/Jordan Catalano) and some low lows (James Franco's poem about River Phoenix; and various male writers sharing some sexist nonsense about the things that make various female celebrities lose their......more