{"product_id":"i-sing-to-use-the-waiting-a-collection-of-essays-about-the-women-singers-whove-made-me-who-i-am-9781953387424","title":"I Sing to Use the Waiting: A Collection of Essays about the Women Singers Who've Made Me Who I Am","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Sing to Use the Waiting: A Collection of Essays about the Women Singers Who've Made Me Who I Am\u003c\/i\u003e is a vital and affecting reflection on how popular culture can shape personal identity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith remarkable grace, candor, and a poet's ear for prose, Zachary Pace recounts the women singers--from Cat Power to Madonna, Kim Gordon to Rihanna--who shaped them as a young person coming-of-age in rural New York, first discovering their own queer voice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStructured like a mixtape, Pace juxtaposes their coming out with the music that informed them along the way. They recount how listening to themselves sing along as a child to a Disney theme song they recorded on a boom box in 1995, was when they first realized there was an effeminate inflection to their voice. As childhood friendships splinter, Pace discusses the relationship between Whitney Houston and Robyn Crawford. Cat Power's song \"My Daddy Was a Musician\" spurs a discussion of Pace's own musician father, and their gradual estrangement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eResonant and compelling, \u003ci\u003eI Sing to Use the Waiting\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply personal rumination on how queer stories are abundant yet often suppressed, and how music may act as a comforting balm carrying us through difficult periods and decisions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eZachary Pace\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and editor who lives in New York City, whose first book is \u003ci\u003eI Sing to Use the Waiting: A Collection of Essays About the Women Singers Who've Made Me Who I Am\u003c\/i\u003e, and whose writing has been published in the \u003ci\u003eBaffler\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFrieze\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, \u003ci\u003eInterview\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, the PEN Poetry Series, the \u003ci\u003eYale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. More work can be found at zacharypace.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Two Dollar Radio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615489331474,"sku":"9781953387424","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3050da84-78b8-47cc-832a-af470f98e0b8.jpg?v=1765367935","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-sing-to-use-the-waiting-a-collection-of-essays-about-the-women-singers-whove-made-me-who-i-am-9781953387424","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}