E. Jean Carroll Wonders What Do We Need Men For?

Jean Carroll writes the longest, currently-running advice column in the U.S., Ask E. Jean. It has 8 million readers. She has been published in New York, Rolling Stone, GQ, Glamour, and was a contributing editor at Esquire and Outside. She wrote for Saturday Night Live, was the host of the Ask E. Jean TV show, and has been a frequent guest on The Today Show. She is the founder of Tawkify, Inc. In her latest book, What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal (St. Martin's Press), America's longest-running advice columnist goes on the road to speak to women about hideous men and whether we need them. When E. Jean Carroll realized that her eight million readers and question-writers all seemed to have one thing in common―problems caused by men―she hit the road. Crisscrossing the country with her blue-haired poodle, Lewis Carroll, E. Jean stopped in every town named after a woman between Eden, Vermont and Tallulah, Louisiana to ask women the crucial question: What Do We Need Men For? E. Jean intertwines the stories of the fascinating people she meets on her road trip with her “horrible history with the male sex” (including mafia bosses, media titans, boyfriends, husbands, a serial killer, and a president), creating a decidedly dark yet hopeful, hilarious, and thrilling narrative. Her answer to the question What Do We Need Men For? will shock men and delight women.

Lisa Birnbach is an award-winning journalist, cultural commentator and bestselling author. Best known as the author of The Official Preppy Handbook and True Prep, she’s published 20 other books, which have been translated into a dozen languages. She’s written for the New York Times, the New Yorker, Parade, Rolling Stone, New York, and other magazines in addition to Yahoo! She was a correspondent on CBS’s The Early Show for three years, and hosted The Lisa Birnbach Show, a daily syndicated radio show which received the Gracie Awards in 2007 for Outstanding Talk Show, and Outstanding Humor Show.