Thingsyou buy through our links may earn New York a commission. party chat June 15, 2017 The Orange Is the New Black Cast Ate a Lot of Pop-Tarts in the Bunker This Season Adiscussion of the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, plus pseudonyms and happy-making things. With host Linda Holmes sick at home, we summon the enthusiasm of our producer and pal, Jess Gitner. TVOrange is the New Black Suzanne Crazy Eyes Warren Hot Topic Exclusive #248. This item has never been removed from the box, so I can’t attest to the paint quality. The box will have normal cash. As with any book-to-film adaptation, there are clear differences between Piper Kerman’s 2010 memoir Orange is the New Black My Year in Women’s Prison and this summer’s Netflix Original adaptation, with Weeds creator Jenji Kohan at the helm. There are dozens of ways the show changed in its book-to-TV adaptation. The character of Delicious in the memoir is renamed Taystee in the series, Yoga Janet becomes Yoga Jones, the guard “Gay Pornstar” earns the even nastier nickname “Pornstache.” “Crazy Eyes” is Latina in the memoir, and isn’t NEARLY as aggressive as her African-American television counterpart. In the memoir, Piper’s fiancé Larry is basically perfect, on the show he’s a bordeline-offensive Jewish cliché who jump-starts his writing career by stealing Piper’s best prison material for his Modern Love column a real-life event that wasn’t nearly as creepy in real life and a segment on a This American Life-like radio show. And, my personal favorite, the prison jackets are “ugly” in the memoir, on film those coats are so bad-ass I’ll bet you my Netflix subscription that Old Navy and Forever-21 are racing each other to see who can mass-produce that shit by Christmas first. Here’s the thing. We can compare and contrast book and show until we’re out of things to compare and contrast. At the end of the day, there’s one difference between the book and the show that stands head and shoulders above the rest. Orange is the New Black is a fine memoir. Orange is the New Black is a revolutionary first season of television. As a memoir, Orange is the New Black is cover-blurbed by Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert, and this makes ALL the sense in the world. Orange is the New Black is of the Eat, Pray, Love tradition a skinny, blonde, upper-middle-class white woman becomes a fish out of water and through her misadventures, finds herself. The world is interesting enough, the prose is good enough, every problem is resolved and tied up with a neat and pretty bow. I don’t mean to damn with faint praise. The book works. It’s a good book. If you like this type of memoir, you should read this book. True Story Newsletter Sign up for True Story to receive nonfiction news, new releases, and must-read forthcoming titles. Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. By signing up you agree to our terms of use As a television show, Orange is the New Black is a game-changer. We start with Piper as our touchstone, but we quickly find ourselves amidst an ensemble of female leads who are black, white, Latina, old, fat, gay, transgender, track-marked, meth-teethed, or, in other words, the kinds of women that usually get two lines on NCIS before they are shot or led away in handcuffs. This is truly a feminist’s show. And it’s not just feminism for cute, young white girls see, well, Girls. It’s feminism for women, all women, we all see ourselves on this show, this show says no matter what we look like or where we come from, we are worthy of being watched and listened to, our stories are worth caring about. Instead of slapping the Bechdel Test on this show like I’ve had to do with almost all other new media I’ve consumed this summer, I had to do a REVERSE Bechdel Test on this show Are there two named male characters? Do they talk to each other? Do they talk to each other about something other than a woman? I’m not sure this show passes on account of that last question. And after years of watching film and television fail the regular Bechdel test, I’m okay with that. This isn’t to say Jenji Kohan for the win, Piper Kerman for the lose. On the contrary, Piper Kerman is a consultant on the show and appears to have a lot of influence on the content. So Jenji and Piper both for the win, together they’ve made a hell of a team. I usually hate giving the adaptation more props than the book it was based on, but with Orange is the New Black, I don’t have much of a choice. As a memoir, it played right into its genre. As a television show, it’s changing the cultural conversation of who is worthy of having their story told. Whatever splash it made as a memoir can’t compare to the tidal wave it’s made as a television show. I can’t wait to see the aftershocks that follow. ____________________________ Sign up for our newsletter to have the best of Book Riot delivered straight to your inbox every two weeks. No spam. We promise. To keep up with Book Riot on a daily basis, follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, , and subscribe to the Book Riot podcast in iTunes or via RSS. So much bookish goodness–all day, every day. Orange Is the New Black season 7 Release date, cast, trailer, plot and everything you need to know Jill Gutowitz, a pop culture writer, is the author of the new book "Girls Can Kiss Now." In the book, Gutowitz takes a humorous look at the intersection of entertainment and sexuality over the past 30 years. Gutowitz told Insider early-2000s Lindsay Lohan and Netflix's "Orange Is the New Black" were formative to her sexuality. Loading Something is loading. As a child, Jill Gutowitz was obsessed with Lindsay grew up watching the child star's classics, like "The Parent Trap," and as a young adult, "Freaky Friday," and "Mean Girls.""I wanted to be like her, dress like her, and act like her. She was the epitome of cool" and everyone loved her, Gutowitz wrote in her new book of essays "Girls Can Kiss Now." Now 30, Gutowitz said she now realizes she wasn't just a fan of Lindsay Lohan. She wanted to kiss her. In the book, Gutowitz shares her musings on the intersection of pop culture and sexuality, weaving in her personal coming-of-age tales. She references Britney Spears, Cara Delevigne, Julianne Moore, and other celebrities whose mainstream presence influenced her Gutowitz identifies as a lesbian. She told Insider, looking back, her childhood obsession with Lindsay Lohan, plus watching "Orange Is the New Black" in her early twenties, helped her come to terms with her attraction to women.'My obsession with Lindsay Lohan would out me'When Gutowitz realized her childhood friends didn't share her fixation over Lohan, she started to downplay it, she told Insider."Because they were noticing that I was so obsessed, I kind of taught myself to tone it down. I came to understand pretty quickly that my obsession with Lindsay Lohan would out me, even if I didn't know for sure that I was a lesbian," Gutowitz told Insider. Gutowitz said she still didn't realize her gayness in 2009, when Lohan and her then girlfriend DJ Samantha Ronson, became tabloid regulars. All Gutowitz could think about back then, she wrote in the book, was "Girls can kiss...each other?!?!?! For their OWN PLEASURE?!?!?"Since Lohan was known as a Hollywood cool-girl before she started dating Ronson, it automatically made their queer relationship more intriguing, Gutowitz said. She also said it was the first time she saw mainstream representation of a same-sex relationship involving a feminine-presenting celebrity, though Lohan has since denied she is bisexual.'Orange Is the New Black' showed women being horny for each otherWhen Gutowitz was 23 she was aware of her gayness, but actively tried to suppress it, she said. That same year, Netflix debuted "Orange Is the New Black," a television show based on a pilot episode, where characters Alex and Piper have shower sex, became another formative moment for her sexuality, Gutowitz said. "That was the first time that I saw a relationship between two women that was based in love and a real connection and also was super hot," Gutowitz told said seeing Alex and Piper's relationship throughout the show helped her confront her fears about being Netflix show "kind of held my hand in a way and was like, 'This is going to be hard to deal with, but there are rewards at the end of it,'" Gutowitz said. "Rewards of actually getting to feel what love feels like. Oh, and horniness too."

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