My Life as a Villainess

<p><em><strong>New York Times </strong></em><strong>bestselling author Laura Lippman a journalist for many years collects here her recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom her life as a reader her relationships with her parents friendship and other topics that will resonate with a large audience. Her voice is wry and relatable her takes often surprising.</strong></p> <p><strong>Meet the Woman Behind the Books...</strong><em></em></p> <p>In this collection of new and previously published essays <em> New York Times</em> bestselling author Laura Lippman offers her take on a woman's life across the decades. Her childhood and school years her newspaper career her experiences as a novelist--Lippman finds universal touchstones in an unusual life that has as many twists as her award-winning crime fiction. </p> <p>Essays include: </p> <p>- Men Explain <em>The Wire</em> to Me</p> <p>- Game of Crones</p> <p>- My Life as a Villainess</p> <p>- My Father's Bar</p> <p>- The 31<sup>st</sup> Stocking</p> <p>These candid essays offer long-time readers insight into the experiences that helped Lippman become one of the most successful crime novelists of her generation.</p>