Vera Blossom with Katherine Cross

is a cheeky how-to guide, as raunchy as it is heartfelt, from a bright new literary voice.

A bold and vulnerable collection from a new, young voice, How to Fuck Like a Girl is a daring mash-up of pillow book, grimoire, and manifesto by writer Vera Blossom. From hooking up to trans witchcraft, petty crime, capitalism, friendships, divorce, and survival, Blossom brings wit and melancholy, grandeur and smarts, debuting a bright literary voice as raunchy as it is heartfelt. Earnestly asking if it is possible to fuck oneself into girlhood, How to Fuck Like a Girl is a cult classic in the making.

Vera Blossom is a proud Filipina American and transfemme monster. Her work explores desire, pleasure, gender, and death. She writes the steamy, confessional newsletter How to Fuck Like a Girl, and cofounded Snack Report, a food blog focused on rituals, feelings, and friendship. In 2021, she helped produce Black Mountain Radio, an artist-driven audio project published in collaboration with Black Mountain Institute and the Believer magazine. In 2022, she was associate producer on season 2 of The Anti-Trans Hate Machine, which focused on the disinformation ecosystem constructed by the Christian Nationalist movement. In 2023, she was selected as an Ann Friedman Weekly Fellow and a PEN America Emerging Voice.

Katherine Alejandra Cross's writings about the travails of our extremely online lives and its political consequences have appeared in Time, Rolling Stone, WIRED, The Baffler, The Verge, and numerous other publications. From video games to social media, she's long examined the role that technology plays in shaping our lives--and how we shape technology. She's also studied this academically: she is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington School of Information, where she’s researching online harassment and social media (for her sins).

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