Laura Eppinger’s Reviews > The Invention of Angela Carter > Status Update

" Angela's [newspaper] colleagues never thought of her as under-confident. The ultramasculine ultraconservative mood of the office soon became the object of her anarchic instincts. Ignoring the papers. Strict dress code. She began wearing wide brimmed hats, bright ethnic dresses and black fishnet stockings her eccentricity, baffled and infuriated the more chauvinistic among them, which was almost certainly the point

Yesssss this has been in my sights for 8 years and I can't wait! Into frames this as both a collection of the likely fabulist memories of all who knew her, which makes sense because of her life's work writing about gender and the performance of femininity.

I am a freak for biography. It's sexy