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The Hairpin - Ladies First

The Hairpin - Ladies First
Katie Heaney's book, Never Have I Ever: My Life (So Far) Without a Date is out today from Grand Central. In it, Katie, an editor at BuzzFeed who's also responsible for this site's "Reading Between the Texts" series, recounts her experiences—or lack thereof—with the opposite sex, from childhood to the age of 25. What comes through is not an absence of relationships, however, so much as the presence and importance of the deep, abiding friendships she's formed over the years. And amid the humor and tongue-in-cheek self-deprecation, there's also a hearty message of empowerment to all women to be who they are, and not necessarily what society expects them to be. I talked to Katie on the eve of her book release about how it all started, her writing and editing process, and what she hopes readers will take from a book about never having dated anyone—yet. Tell me about the inception of the book.

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