Box Girl

My Part-Time Job as an Art Installation

Biography & Memoir, Entertainment & Performing Arts
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Author: Lilibet Snellings ISBN: 9781619023628
Publisher: Counterpoint Press Publication: March 18, 2014
Imprint: Soft Skull Press Language: English
Author: Lilibet Snellings
ISBN: 9781619023628
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Publication: March 18, 2014
Imprint: Soft Skull Press
Language: English

A whip-smart account of the author’s turbulent 20s, told in a “self-effacing and wryly humorous young voice in the tenor of Sloan Crosley and Lena Dunham” (Booklist).
 
When 22-year-old Lilibet Snellings moved to Los Angeles on a whim, she unintentionally became a “slash” to keep her head above water—a writer/waitress/actress/Box Girl. One night each week, Lilibet would go to The Standard Hotel in West Hollywood, don a pair of white boy shorts with a matching tank, touch up her lip gloss, and crawl into a giant glass case behind the front desk. There, she could do whatever she wanted—check email, catch up on reading, even sleep—as long as she ignored the many hotel guests who would point and ask the staff, “Is she allowed to use the bathroom?” (Yes.)
 
Dog-paddling through her twenties, Snellings resisted financial bailouts (for the most part) from her parents, while pondering her peculiar position as a human art installation. Was she a piece of art or a piece of ass? Was she allowed to read both Walt Whitman and US Weekly as she lounged in an oversized, waterless aquarium behind a hotel concierge desk? From misinterpreting a modeling agency interview as a talent audition, to avoiding Bond-girl-style deaths at New Year’s Eve parties, Snellings shares and laughs at her many mishaps while living in LA.
 
“One part Joan Didion, one part Holly Golightly, Lilibet Snellings has given us, in Box Girl, a hilarious and utterly original account of coming of age in L.A.” —Dana Goodyear

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A whip-smart account of the author’s turbulent 20s, told in a “self-effacing and wryly humorous young voice in the tenor of Sloan Crosley and Lena Dunham” (Booklist).
 
When 22-year-old Lilibet Snellings moved to Los Angeles on a whim, she unintentionally became a “slash” to keep her head above water—a writer/waitress/actress/Box Girl. One night each week, Lilibet would go to The Standard Hotel in West Hollywood, don a pair of white boy shorts with a matching tank, touch up her lip gloss, and crawl into a giant glass case behind the front desk. There, she could do whatever she wanted—check email, catch up on reading, even sleep—as long as she ignored the many hotel guests who would point and ask the staff, “Is she allowed to use the bathroom?” (Yes.)
 
Dog-paddling through her twenties, Snellings resisted financial bailouts (for the most part) from her parents, while pondering her peculiar position as a human art installation. Was she a piece of art or a piece of ass? Was she allowed to read both Walt Whitman and US Weekly as she lounged in an oversized, waterless aquarium behind a hotel concierge desk? From misinterpreting a modeling agency interview as a talent audition, to avoiding Bond-girl-style deaths at New Year’s Eve parties, Snellings shares and laughs at her many mishaps while living in LA.
 
“One part Joan Didion, one part Holly Golightly, Lilibet Snellings has given us, in Box Girl, a hilarious and utterly original account of coming of age in L.A.” —Dana Goodyear

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