E. Jean Carroll is exactly Wordfest’s type: bold, brave, and irrepressibly optimistic. It is with “Ravishing Regards” (the veteran journalist’s email signature) that we welcome her back to Calgary, with her instant bestseller, Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President. And the genius behind “Ask E. Jean” (the magazine world’s longest-running advice column) is game to answer any and all* of your questions. (*Okay, the ones that her crackerjack legal team will allow.)
Note: This special show replaces E. Jean Carroll’s appearance at the Imaginairium (Oct. 14-19). Due to a travel conflict, Carroll had to reschedule her Calgary dates and is now joining us in November.
We are grateful to Raincoast Books for making it possible to connect you with E. Jean Carroll.
Shelley Youngblut
Lively Conversation
Audience Q&A
Pop-Up Bookstore
Book Signing
Cash Bar
Complimentary Parking
75 minutes. No intermission.
Raincoast Books
E. Jean Carroll is a journalist and the author of five books, including What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal, and Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson. Carroll’s Ask E. Jean column appeared in Elle magazine from 1993 through 2019, becoming one of the longest-running advice columns in American publishing. She has written for Rolling Stone, Outside, Vanity Fair, Esquire, New York, and The Atlantic. In 2024, Carroll was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. She lives and throws the ball for her dogs at her cabin in the mountains in upstate New York.
“A field guide for fighting fascism and winning, and not just winning but triumphing and remaining wholly, exuberantly, exasperatingly human!” –Liz Lenz (The American Ex-Wife)
A hilarious, hopeful, revelatory behind the scenes account of the trials that riveted the nation
You’ve heard about the tantrums, the seething, the storming out of court, yes. But what about E. Jean’s side of the story? What about the flight suits, the bottle of green Chartreuse, and the bob?
Not My Type puts you in a better seat than the jury box.
You will hear Alina Habba, Esq., “Trump’s most beautiful attorney,” asking E. Jean to “list” the people she has “slept with”―a list which turns out to be so marvelous, it is worth twice the price of this book. You will experience the fear and loathing of E. Jean’s “psychiatric evaluations,” and hear how she tries to cheer up Trump’s gloomy, $750-an-hour shrink by telling him about the strange white tablet Hunter S. Thompson gave her.
You will be in on the choosing of the “clothes for court,” and the creation of “the look”: a look that will help the jury connect the younger E. Jean who is attacked by Trump in Bergdorf’s with the older E. Jean who sits in the courtroom.
It’s all here: two dazzling trials, the full-tilt high stakes, the laugh-out-loud commentary, and the inspiring fact that a woman is never too old to get even.
Shelley Youngblut
Lively Conversation
Audience Q&A
Pop-Up Bookstore
Book Signing
Cash Bar
Complimentary Parking
75 minutes. No intermission.
Raincoast Books
Shelley Youngblut is the CEO & Creative Ringleader of Wordfest. She was the recipient of the 2020 Calgary Award for Community Achievement in the Arts and the 2018 Rozsa Award for Arts Leadership. She also won the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Western Magazine Awards. Youngblut was the founding editor of Calgary’s award-winning Swerve magazine and has created magazines for ESPN, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, Nickelodeon, Western Living, and The Globe and Mail. A former pop-culture correspondent for ABC World News Now and Canada AM, she was also a frequent contributor to CBC Calgary’s The Eyeopener, The Homestretch, and Daybreak Alberta.
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