Wild West Village - Lola Kirke

Written By Mona Angéline

“Wild West Village–Not a Memoir”, contrary to its subtitle, is a celebrity memoir-in-essays with a twist. Actress and singer-songwriter Lola Kirke weaves together anecdotes from her eventful childhood in an eccentric rockstar family to her present-day life in an engaging and entertaining, almost weightless read.


I hadn’t really heard about the author before I received this review copy, but I certainly relate to her more now than I’d ever get to know any other celebrity stranger, celebrating her wins with her throughout her vulnerable book and rooting for her in the challenges she faces as she tries to find herself amid the chaos in her surroundings of addiction and affairs. 


Because of the humorous writing style, the book perhaps doesn’t go as deep as other memoirs do when it comes to the emotional gravity, but this might just be what a contemporary reader needs when the market is flooded with stories of the bared hearts and souls of our world.


Well done Lola Kirke! Out January 28, 2025


In gratitude to Simon & Schuster for the invitation to review this title.

Mona Angéline

Mona Angéline is an unapologetically vulnerable writer, reader, book reviewer, artist, athlete, and scientist. She honors the creatively unconventional, the authentically "other". She shares her emotions because the world tends to hide theirs. She is a new writer, but her work was recently accepted in Flash Fiction Magazine, Grand Dame Literary, tiny wren lit, Down in the Dirt Magazine, The Viridian Door, The Machine, Whisky Blot Magazine, and The Academy of Mind and Heart. She loves to review books and has written them for the /tƐmz/ Review, the Ampersand Review, and the Beakful Litblog. Sooner or later she will have to condense this list… Mona is also a regular guest editor for scientific journals although she doesn't use a pen name when her engineering PhD degree is involved. She lives bicoastally in Santa Cruz, California, and in New York and savors life despite, or maybe because of, her significant struggles with chronic illness and mild disability. Learn about her musings at creativerunnings.com. Follow her on Instagram under @creativerunnings and on Twitter at @creativerunning.

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