Hilton Als’s White Girls is a disorienting book. If traditional biography aspires to capture the person behind the scrim of myth, Als prefers to linger on the scrim itself—the fantasy, the persona ...
Jamie Parra
Jamie Parra is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is working on a dissertation entitled “Prisoners of Style: Slavery, Ethics, and the Lives of American Literary Characters.” 