I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive

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FRESH APPRAISAL OF A CULTURAL ICON: Melnick explores Parton’s musical genius but also her gift for reading, reflecting, and leading the culture, for exploiting her own image and upending outdated sexist assumptions to advance an agenda that is truly feminist and progressive. In Parton, Melnick has found both an iconic and enduring cultural touchstone but also a surprising and accessible point of reference in her own—and every woman’s—life. THE ULTIMATE PARTON PLAYLIST: The framework of the book is a highly discerning Parton playlist, curated by Melnick, a longtime Parton fan. Each of the 21 chapters takes as its starting point a song that elegantly dovetails with the essay’s theme. See the Table of Contents below for a complete list.  FOR READERS OF LESLIE JAMISON, REBECCA SOLNIT, ROXANE GAY, AND CARMEN MARIA MACHADO: Melnick’s essays seamlessly blend the personal, the cultural, and the critical and, like these authors, expands our idea of what the personal essay can do and be.  PERSONAL ESSAYS THAT CENTER GIRLS AND WOMEN WHO SURVIVE: These essays on rape culture, #metoo, overt and subliminal sexism will appeal to readers of Melissa Febos’s Girlhood and T. Kira Madden’s Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls. SUBJECTS INCLUDE: Trauma, addiction, recovery, rape, rape culture, domestic violence, grief, anger, healing, parenthood, friendship, marriage, sex, pleasure, religion, nostalgia, aging, music, poetry, and art. READING GROUP GUIDE: So many fertile topics for discussion make SURVIVE a great choice for nonfiction reading groups. A reading group guide is included in the paperback. MUSIC AND CULTURAL CRITICISM FROM AN IMPORTANT NEW VOICE: Melnick brings her poet’s gift for precision and lyricism to the work of cultural analysis. The result is a hybrid that presents a fresh and urgent mirror of our times and the culture. ACADEMIC POTENTIAL: I’VE HAD TO THINK UP A WAY TO SURVIVE has potential for course adoption in Women’s Studies, Creative Nonfiction, and American Studies programs.  ENDURING CULTURAL RELEVANCE: Melnick explains why Parton has become an important voice in the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements. PART OF A PRESTIGIOUS SERIES: The book was originally published as part of University of Texas Press’s highly regarded American Music series, which has launched the careers of Hanif Abdurraquib and Melissa Febos, among others.  PAPERBACK OPPORTUNITY: Despite the prestigious pedigree, we have an opportunity to treat this publication as a paperback original, getting the book, with its new cover and excellent reviews and endorsements, to a readership that was unaware of its existence as a university press hardcover and getting it into the academic market. We should treat it, effectively, as a paperback original.