Geek Girls Unite: How Fangirls, Bookworms, Indie Chicks, and Other Misfits Are Taking Over the World

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For every girl who marches to the beat of her own drum, Leslie Simon has your manifesto: a smart, expansive, and winningly entertaining celebration of comedy queens, film geeks, bookworms, craft mavens, indie chicks, and other all-star women. Following the breakaway hit book Everybody Hurts, Simon's energizing look at today's pop-culture and counterculture heroines-like Amy Sedaris, Tina Fey, Sofia Coppola, Regina Spektor, and Jenny Hart-is an empowering, eye-opening, and, above all, fun journey. Readers of The Hip Girl's Guide to Homemaking and The Modern Girl's Guide to Life will love joining forces as Geek Girls Unite!

Leslie Simon is the author of Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes and co-author of Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture. Her work has appeared in Kerrang!, Alternative Press, metromix.com, and MTV.com.

"Geek Girls Unite is the ultimate guide for any girl who identifies with the geekier side of life. It's a hilarious must-read look into the modern geek and what makes her so cool!" -- comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates "While geekdom has long been portrayed in pop culture as a boys' club, Simon catalogues the wide variety of geek girls in this entertaining look at embracing nonconformity...a worthy endeavor." -- Publishers Weekly Tina Fey worshipper Leslie Simon crowdsources media obsessions from a 'guild' of like-minded women to assemble this peppy survey of comedy, literary, film and music icons, all the while evangelizing on behalf of misfit females. -- Wired.com