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(0)Daniel M. Lavery
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Daniel Mallory Ortberg is known for blending genres, forms, and sources to develop fascinating new hybrids--from lyric rants to horror recipes to pornographic scripture. In his most personal work to date, he turns his attention to the essay, offering vigorous and laugh-out-loud funny accounts of both popular and highbrow culture while mixing in meditations on gender transition, family dynamics, and the many meanings of faith. From a thoughtful analysis...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Based on the long-running SLATE advice column, a collection of the most eye-opening, illuminating, and provocative installments during Daniel M. Lavery's tenure as the titular Prudence"--
Slate's "Dear Prudence" is an advice column that promises a healthy dose of reality and good humor alongside its indispensable suggestions and life lessons. Lavery recounts his time as a Prudie columnist. His candid collection draws out the broader themes of his...
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Featuring stories by a bestselling, cross-genre assortment of some of the most exciting writers working today, an anthology of gender-bent, queered, race-bent, and inclusive retellings from the vast lore surrounding King Arthur, Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table. The stories are so iconic that just a name, a word, conjures romance and betrayal, chivalry and magic. These are legends so embedded in our culture that they feel real; that as...
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Star Wars: A New Hope was first released in 1977, part of its appeal was that the world it presented felt alive. Landspeeders and starships were dirty. Droids broke down. And it was filled with cool, weird, and really weird background characters. (Really, just take a look around the Mos Eisley cantina.) Never mind Han, Luke, Leia, Darth Vader, and Obi-Wan. Who were these other guys? What was their story? Just seeing them brought up questions...
