Lindy West is the co-host of the comedy podcast “Text Me Back” and the author of the email newsletter Butt News, widely agreed to be the best and most important email newsletter of all time. She has published four books: ADULT BRACES: Driving Myself Sane; SH*T, ACTUALLY: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema; the New York Times bestselling memoir SHRILL: Notes from a Loud Woman; and the essay collection THE WITCHES ARE COMING.

Lindy is a former contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and her work has appeared in This American Life, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Vulture, Jezebel and others. She is the co-founder of the reproductive rights destigmatization campaign #ShoutYourAbortion.

Lindy is a writer and executive producer on “Shrill,” the Hulu comedy adapted from her memoir. She co-wrote and produced the independent feature film Thin Skin. She lives on the Olympic Peninsula.

Books by Lindy West

Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane

by Lindy West - Humor, Memoir, Nonfiction

Through SHRILL --- the book and then the Hulu series --- Lindy West became an inspiration. To this day, she is stopped on the street and hailed as a beacon of empowerment by women who felt badly for not conforming to a narrow set of societal norms --- thin, straight, compliant. But behind the scenes, Lindy never felt like she was the self-actualized woman fans made her out to be. When she found herself in the throes of a deep depression, with her marriage and sense of self-worth hanging in the balance, she knew she needed to make a change. In ADULT BRACES, Lindy shares the story of her rock bottom and the journey she took to claw her way out of it.

The Witches Are Coming

by Lindy West - Nonfiction, Social Sciences

From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In THE WITCHES ARE COMING, Lindy West turns that refrain on its head. You think this is a witch hunt? Fine. You've got one. Here, she extolls the world-changing magic of truth, urging readers to reckon with dark lies in the heart of the American mythos, and unpacking the complicated, and sometimes tragic, politics of not being a white man in the 21st century. She tracks the misogyny and propaganda hidden (or not so hidden) in the media that she and her peers devoured growing up, a buffet of distortions, delusions and prejudice that has allowed white male mediocrity to maintain a death grip on American culture and politics.