What Do We Need Men For?, E. Jean Carroll
What Do We Need Men For?, E. Jean Carroll
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What Do We Need Men For?
A Modest Proposal

Author: E. Jean Carroll

Narrator: E. Jean Carroll

Unabridged: 6 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/02/2019

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

"In narrating her own audiobook, Carroll shows her sense of humor with her inflections. Sometimes laugh-out-loud funny but often deeply uncomfortable, Carroll's audiobook never shies away from what she wants to say when she wants to say it." -- AudioFile Magazine

This program is read by the author.

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As seen on the cover of New York Magazine and in the breaking news story about Donald Trump, America's longest running advice columnist goes on the road to speak to women about hideous men and whether we need them.

“Darkly humorous and deadly serious.” –Sibbie O'Sullivan, Washington Post

“A compulsively interesting feminist memoir.” –Virginia Heffernan, Slate

"Somehow hilarious, in the way that only E. Jean could have written it" –Leigh Haber, Oprah Magazine

“Roving, curious, compassionate, whimsical.” –Megan Garber, The Atlantic

When E. Jean Carroll—possibly the liveliest woman in the world and author of the “Ask E. Jean” advice column in Elle Magazine, realized that her eight million readers and question-writers all seemed to have one thing in common—problems caused by men—she hit the road. Crisscrossing the country with her blue-haired poodle, Lewis Carroll, E. Jean stopped in every town named after a woman between Eden, Vermont and Tallulah, Louisiana to ask women the crucial question: What Do We Need Men For?

E. Jean gave her rollicking road trip a sly, stylish turn when she deepened the story, creating a list called “The Most Hideous Men of My Life,” and began to reflect on her own sometimes very dark history with the opposite sex. What advice would she have given to her past selves—as Miss Cheerleader USA and Miss Indiana University? Or as the fearless journalist, television host, and eventual advice columnist she became? E. Jean intertwines the stories of the fascinating people she meets on her road trip with her “horrible history with the male sex” (including mafia bosses, media titans, boyfriends, husbands, a serial killer, and a president), creating a decidedly dark yet hopeful, hilarious, and thrilling narrative. Her answer to the question What Do We Need Men For? will shock men and delight women.

About E. Jean Carroll

E. Jean Carroll is a journalist and the author of five books, including a biography of Hunter S. Thompson. She has written for Rolling Stone, Outside, Vanity Fair, Esquire, New York, and The Atlantic. She was named one of Time's Most Influential People in the World in 2024. She throws the ball for her dogs at her cabin in the mountains in upstate New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Christine on October 21, 2019

I enjoyed this book quite a bit to begin with, but it was a bit of a rollercoaster ride. This review is going to pertain towards the writing rather than the content (Carroll has dealt with a lot of bs and it isn't my intention to review that piece). I liked the humour at first, but it felt a bit... t......more

Goodreads review by John on January 19, 2024

Imagine Carrie Bradshaw at 70…she can still write a bit but this Carrie Bradshaw never got Big or even Aidan..and she’s alone…and so she goes on a tiny book screed of all the men who’ve assaulted her supposedly….from the babysitter and the sitter’s boyfriend to the likes of Les Moonves and Donald Tr......more

Goodreads review by Yana on August 29, 2019

Update: OK, I finished the book. My first impression has not changed. A book about nothing.... OK, This is my first impression. It's cute. Way too much of man-bashing even for my taste and I am a single (by choice, after three marriages) very independent, self-sufficient woman, but, what do I know, I......more

Goodreads review by Angel on July 03, 2019

A celebration of womanhood in all its glory. Also, very funny. E. Jean is a national treasure. Pre-publication coverage has been all about the Trump incident, but that's about 1 percent of the book, and it comes at the end. Read it for the humor, the insight, and for Lewis Carroll and Miss Bingley.......more

Goodreads review by Lori on July 13, 2019

Okay, bear with me, I'm new to writing reviews. I read a couple books a week but rarely take the time to write a review. THIS BOOK IS INCREDIBLE! I laughed so hard at times and cried at others and all the while felt my own demons losing power. WOW! I've sent copies to the women in my life most in ne......more


Quotes

"In narrating her own audiobook, Carroll shows her sense of humor with her inflections. Sometimes laugh-out-loud funny but often deeply uncomfortable, Carroll's audiobook never shies away from what she wants to say when she wants to say it." -AudioFile

“Politically and socially urgent.” —Cristina Arreola, Bustle

“Quirky” —Kim Hubbard, People

“ELLE's own agony aunt, the incomparable E. Jean Carroll, went on a road trip to ask women a very simple question... Perfection.” —Estelle Tang, ELLE

“Explosive” —Elena Nicolau, Refinery 29

"A memoir by way of an old-fashioned American road trip...No reader of Carroll’s column will be surprised to find that such violent moments are interspersed with huge helpings of levity." —Keziah Weir, Vanity Fair

“What [the book] offers, though, is a kind of literary impressionism, based on 75 years of lived experience—a sense of what it feels like to have pulsing veins and fiery nerves and a teeming mind and be caught within the cold infrastructures of sexism.” —Megan Garber, The Atlantic

“The writing… is just riveting. But it’s also journalistically very powerful, very precise, very careful” —Lawrence O’Donnell

"E. Jean is a terrific writer; she has mastered the difficult task of making her words sound like they're delivered in person, over a cocktail. " —Monica Hesse, The Washington Post

"Very funny” The Brian Lehrer Show

"Fantastically written but so friendly to follow...Carroll’s book is readable in a way the Great Thinkers are not and can never be." —B. David Zarley, Paste Magazine

“Thoughtful, powerful” —Adam Rathe, Town and Country

“The most bitterly funny, fantastically furious book to explode out of the #metoo moment.” —Dani Shapiro, bestselling author of Family History

“Buy this book.” —Ed Kosner, former Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek, New York, and Esquire

“There isn’t another voice out there like E Jean’s.” —Lorraine Candy, Editor-in-Chief, London Sunday Times

“E. Jean is a know it all.” —Jane Smiley

"E. Jean Carroll is a force of nature, whose natural vibrancy has held readers in rapture for decades." —Nina Garcia, Editor-in-Chief, ELLE