LILIBET SNELLINGS KYTE, AUTHOR
BOX GIRL
MY PART-TIME JOB AS AN ART INSTALLATION
By Lilibet Snellings
“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. Winsome, witty, and startlingly honest, she takes us on a mental journey that touches on feminism and fast food, voyeurism and advertising, going broke and breaking away. Delightful!”
–Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker
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“A self-effacing and wryly humorous young voice in the tenor of Sloane Crosley and Lena Dunham”
—Booklist
“A funny, whip-smart debut, Snellings’ exposé of herself and Los Angeles gives new meaning to the phrase ‘think inside the box.’”
–Sandra Tsing Loh, The Atlantic
BOX GIRL named one of Flavorwire’s Top 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2014
BOX GIRL on Harper's Bazaar's "Hot List" March 2014
BOX GIRL #3 on Buzzfeed's "22 Books You Need to Read This Summer" List
TimeOut LA called BOX GIRL a "Top New Book About Los Angeles"
As featured in The Los Angeles Times, Harper's Bazaar, Paper Magazine, Buzzfeed, TimeOut LA, Talk Radio Europe, and elsewhere, BOX GIRL is a collection of laugh-out-loud essays about Lilibet Snellings moving to LA at age 22 and unintentionally becoming a "slash." A writer/waitress/actress/...Box Girl. Once a week, Snellings would sit inside a giant glass box behind the concierge desk at The Standard Hotel for seven hours at a time and pretend to ignore the many hotel guests who asked, "Is she allowed to go to the bathroom?" (Yes.) From spilling five beers on one person while waitressing, to almost drowning on the set of Entourage, Snellings shares and laughs at her many mishaps while navigating her 20s in LA.
Lilibet Snellings Kyte is an American writer and author. Her first book, a collection of humorous essays about her 20s in Los Angeles (BOX GIRL: My Part-Time Job as an Art Installation) was published by Counterpoint/Softskull Press, and is currently in discussions for TV development. She is at work on her second book, also a collection of essays, which is humorous and also heavy, dealing with a host of issues arising in her 30s including, most recently, a diagnosis of multiple-sclerosis at age 36. The book is a meditation on cancer, infertility, motherhood, multiple-sclerosis, and death—yet threaded throughout is Snellings' signature, and, at times, laugh-out-loud humor.
Bio
In addition to her work as a writer, she raises money and awareness for people living with MS through her foundation, The Lilibet Snellings Kyte Foundation. She holds an MFA in creative writing from The University of Southern California and a journalism degree from The University of Colorado at Boulder, where she ran cross-country and track. She was a fellow at the New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore and a scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference. Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines and websites. After living in Los Angeles and Chicago for 15 years, she now resides in Richmond, Virginia with her husband and son.
The Lilibet Snellings Kyte Foundation
The Lilibet Snellings Kyte Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization committed to raising money and awareness about multiple-sclerosis (MS), with a specific emphasis on providing resources and support for runners with MS. Its principal fundraising platform ("Legging It for MS”) is a 5K road race and corresponding event, held annually.