Querido capullo / Dear Jerk by Virginie Despentes

Virginie Despentes is a filmmaker and writer. She worked in an independent record store in the early 1990s, was a sex worker, and at the age of twenty-three, she published her first novel, Baise Moi. In 2000, she co-directed the film adaptation of the novel with porn star Coralie Trinh Thi. It was the first picture to be banned in France in twenty-eight years when it was released. Despentes is also the author of Apocalypse Baby, Bye Bye Blondie, Beautiful Things, and the Vernon Subutex trilogy, among other works.