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An adult store in the San Fernando Valley. Follow me on Instagram for more photos from my life in L.A.
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Come to My Data Baby Reading at Book Soup
This Wednesday, November 15, I’m reading from my new memoir, DATA BABY: My Life in a Psychological Experiment, at Book Soup. The event starts at 7 pm. You can find the details on the Book Soup website.
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I Regret
An Interview with Me About Data Baby on Shondaland
Rachel Simon interviewed me about DATA BABY: My Life in a Psychological Experiment for Shondaland.
“‘In a way, the study was the mother that I didn’t have. It paid attention,’ she says. ‘In my mind, it was always there, watching over me.’”
Read the rest: “In ‘Data Baby,’ Journalist Susannah Breslin Turns the Spotlight on Herself.”
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The Voyeur
“I took the above selfie in late 2018, in one of the experiment rooms in Tolman Hall, a Brutalist building on the north side of the U.C. Berkeley campus, in which I was studied from chilhood and into adulthood.” Read the rest of my latest Reverse Cowgirl newsletter HERE, and hit the pink button at the bottom to subscribe.
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Data Baby Is Here
Today is pub day for my memoir, DATA BABY: My Life in a Psychological Experiment. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called it "fascinating" and "gripping stuff.” Kirkus Reviews deemed it "An intelligently provocative memoir and investigation.” Available everywhere fine books about being a human lab rat are sold.
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Life in L.A.
The Jezebels
The Death of Jezebel by Gustav Doré | Wikipedia
Anna Holmes has an interesting piece at The New Yorker: “Jezebel and the Question of Women’s Anger.” Holmes was the founding editor of Jezebel in its heyday, and she explores how the website was groundbreaking in its articulations of the things women are not supposed to discuss and the ways in which they are not supposed to discuss them. I am briefly mentioned in the essay, as someone who complained Jezebel’s writers were doing little more than “‘caterwauling about the patriarchy.’” In any case, the story is a good read and a thoughtful consideration of whether or not the feminist blogosphere laid the groundwork for today’s online fracturosphere. I do wish, though, that she had talked more about the current state of Jezebel and what she thinks of it now. Was Jezebel subsumed … or a feminist-rage machine not built to last?
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Data Baby Is One of Reading Under the Radar's Best New Books November 2023
Reading under the Radar has selected DATA BABY: My Life in a Psychological Experiment as one of its “Best New Books November 2023.” Pre-order a copy of my forthcoming memoir from your favorite retailer HERE.
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Porn Valley, USA
Data Baby Is One of Alta Journal's ‘11 New Books for November’
Alta Journal has selected DATA BABY: My Life in a Psychological Experiment as one of its “11 New Books for November.” Pre-order a copy of my memoir, which drops November 7, from your favorite retailer HERE.
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Data Baby Gets a Starred Review in Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly gives DATA BABY: My Life in a Psychological Experiment a starred review: “Unpicking thorny questions about determinism and the ethics of human experimentation, Breslin attacks her subject with verve and wit, resisting woe-is-me solipsism without defanging her critiques of the study that rocked her life. It’s gripping stuff.” Read the rest HERE. Pre-order a copy of my memoir from your favorite retailer HERE.
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Hey Girl
I took this photo recently at the “John Waters: Pope of Trash” exhibit at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (see: “A Dirty Shame.”) Follow me on Instagram for more scenes from my life in Los Angeles.
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Data Baby Unboxing
The unboxing of one’s book is to the publishing industry what the money shot is to pornography. Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment is the true story of the 30 years I spent as a research subject in a groundbreaking University of California, Berkeley longitudinal personality study that sought to predict who me and over 100 other Berkeley kids would grow up to be. Pre-order it from your favorite retailer HERE.
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What We See
“The images feature hardcore sex, fetishists, erect penises, the unhoused, the seemingly dead, freaks, the mentally ill, exhibitionists, masochists, sex workers, psychos, criminals, mobsters, a hooded figure removing a string of anal beads from his anus, and other types.” Read the rest of my latest Reverse Cowgirl newsletter HERE and then subscribe by hitting the button at the bottom of the newsletter.
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My Thoughts on Traditional Versus Independent Publishing
Today I posted my thoughts on traditional vs independent publishing in my Instagram Stories. I’ve saved it in my Instagram Highlights, as well. Obviously, this isn’t my final verdict on the matter, but where I’m at now.
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Data Baby Giveaway
Enter the Goodreads giveaway for my new memoir, DATA BABY: My Life in a Psychological Experiment, for a chance to win a free copy here. (2,000+ people have entered already!) Kirkus Reviews calls my book “An intelligently provocative memoir and investigation.” Or you can pre-order a copy of DATA BABY here.
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The Dominatrix Question
I’m a big fan of the “Real Housewives” franchise, fashion icon Jenna Lyons, and superchick Julia Fox, so when Bravo mastermind Andy Cohen posted a call on Twitter asking for questions that would be posed to Jenna and / or Julia on an upcoming episode of “Watch What Happens Live,” I shared a question I had for Julia about the time she spent working as a dominatrix. Find out what I asked and what Julia said here.
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A Data Baby Shout-out
Thanks to my pal Rob Walker for giving a shout-out to my memoir, DATA BABY: My Life in a Psychological Experiment, in his newsletter, The Art of Noticing. If you don’t subscribe to his newsletter, you should.
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