E. Jean Carroll is a journalist and the author of five books, including What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal, and Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson. Carroll’s Ask E. Jean column appeared in Elle magazine from 1993 through 2019, becoming one of the longest-running advice columns in American publishing. She has written for Rolling Stone, Outside, Vanity Fair, Esquire, New York, and The Atlantic. In 2024, Carroll was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. She lives and throws the ball for her dogs at her cabin in the mountains in upstate New York.
“A field guide for fighting fascism and winning, and not just winning but triumphing and remaining wholly, exuberantly, exasperatingly human!” –Liz Lenz (The American Ex-Wife)
A hilarious, hopeful, revelatory behind the scenes account of the trials that riveted the nation
You’ve heard about the tantrums, the seething, the storming out of court, yes. But what about E. Jean’s side of the story? What about the flight suits, the bottle of green Chartreuse, and the bob?
Not My Type puts you in a better seat than the jury box.
You will hear Alina Habba, Esq., “Trump’s most beautiful attorney,” asking E. Jean to “list” the people she has “slept with”―a list which turns out to be so marvelous, it is worth twice the price of this book. You will experience the fear and loathing of E. Jean’s “psychiatric evaluations,” and hear how she tries to cheer up Trump’s gloomy, $750-an-hour shrink by telling him about the strange white tablet Hunter S. Thompson gave her.
You will be in on the choosing of the “clothes for court,” and the creation of “the look”: a look that will help the jury connect the younger E. Jean who is attacked by Trump in Bergdorf’s with the older E. Jean who sits in the courtroom.
It’s all here: two dazzling trials, the full-tilt high stakes, the laugh-out-loud commentary, and the inspiring fact that a woman is never too old to get even.
America’s longest running advice columnist goes on the road to speak to women about hideous men and whether we need them.
When E. Jean Carroll―possibly the liveliest woman in the world and author of the “Ask E. Jean” advice column in Elle Magazine, realized that her eight million readers and question-writers all seemed to have one thing in common―problems caused by men―she hit the road. Crisscrossing the country with her blue-haired poodle, Lewis Carroll, E. Jean stopped in every town named after a woman between Eden, Vermont and Tallulah, Louisiana to ask women the crucial question: What Do We Need Men For?
E. Jean gave her rollicking road trip a sly, stylish turn when she deepened the story, creating a list called “The Most Hideous Men of My Life,” and began to reflect on her own sometimes very dark history with the opposite sex. What advice would she have given to her past selves―as Miss Cheerleader USA and Miss Indiana University? Or as the fearless journalist, television host, and eventual advice columnist she became? E. Jean intertwines the stories of the fascinating people she meets on her road trip with her “horrible history with the male sex” (including mafia bosses, media titans, boyfriends, husbands, a serial killer, and a president), creating a decidedly dark yet hopeful, hilarious, and thrilling narrative. Her answer to the question What Do We Need Men For? will shock men and delight women.
Starring E. Jean Carroll, Cherie Dimaline, Tracey Lindberg, Linden MacIntyre, David A. Robertson, Shelagh Rogers, Saeed Teebi & Souvankam Thammavongsa. Hosted by Pam Rocker
Starring Emily Austin, Gabrielle Drolet, Jon Hickey & Wesley King, with E. Jean Carroll, Cory Doctorow & Emma Donoghue. Hosted by Adrian Todd Zuniga
NOTE: 7PM START. Starring E. Jean Carroll. Hosted by Shelley Youngblut
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