Nurse Jackie and GLOW actor Betty Gilpin revealed the cover of her new book, and talked to Entertainment Weekly about what readers can expect from the essay collection.
The cover of Gilpin’s All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns, which will be published this summer by Flatiron, features several Barbie-esque doll heads arrayed on a pink background.
The doll heads seem to represent the women who live in Gilpin’s brain. She writes in a description for the book, “There’s Blanche VonFuckery, Ingrid St. Rash, and a host of others—some cowering in sweatpants, some howling plans for revolution, and one, oh God, and one…slowly vomiting up a crow? Worried for her. These women take turns at the wheel. That’s why I feel like a million selves.”
Gilpin told Entertainment Weekly that her book isn’t a typical actor memoir.
“It’s more like I realized that my strange and wonderful experiences as a sometimes-working actor have proved to be the perfect allegory for being a woman in this world—feeling like you have to audition for the job you already have, feeling like you have to maniacally cycle through selves to give whoever is in front of you the girl that they want, feeling like you have a quarter of the time that men do to achieve your dreams before the government deems you disgusting and banishes you to eat sleeves of tear-soaked saltines in bed ’til you die,” she said. “It’s a book for anybody that feels insane.”
All the Women in My Brain is scheduled for publication on Sept. 6.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
