It's Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me: 'A brutal and brilliant study of female celebrity' Megan Nolan, Telegraph

Award-nominated essayist and art critic Philippa Snow explores the echoes and connections between a constellation of female stars, laying bare the artful and gruelling demands of femininity.
Snow's first full-length non-fiction work is a radically insightful book about the complex meanings and layers of femininity in a male-dominated world.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 03 July 2025
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Nicole Flattery, author of Show Them A Good Time, describes Wildly Entertaining as "a brutal and brilliant study of female celebrity... a joy to read, fizzing with intelligence." Megan Nolan, writing for the Telegraph, calls it "wildly entertaining" and a "brutal and brilliant study of female celebrity." Philippa Snow's first full-length non-fiction work, Wildly Entertaining, is a radically insightful book about the complex meanings and layers of femininity in a male-dominated world. The book explores the echoes and connections between a constellation of female stars, from the golden age of Hollywood to the Instagram era, and lays bare the artful and gruelling demands of femininity. Full of fascinating, entertaining, and lurid details, the book dissects the lives of mega-famous celebrities with icicle-sharp intelligence and renders them in stylish, flamboyant prose.

Weight: 404g
Dimension: 223 x 145 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780349017716