Moranthology
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
The follow up to her bestselling breakout hit How to Be a Woman, Moranthology is a hilarious, insightful collection of Moran’s London Times columns that confirms her status as “the UK’s answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one.” (Marie Claire)
Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling How to Be a Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman. Moranthology is proof that Caitlin can actually be “quite chatty” about many other things, including cultural, social and political issues that are usually the province of learned professors, or hot-shot wonks—and not of a woman who once, as an experiment, put a wasp in a jar, and got it stoned.
Here you’ll find Caitlin ruminating on—and sometimes interviewing—subjects as varied as caffeine, Keith Richards, Ghostbusters, Twitter, the welfare state, the royal wedding, Lady Gaga, and her own mortality, to name just a few. With her “brilliant, original voice” (Publishers Weekly), Caitlin brings insight and humor to everything she writes.
What happens when the UK’s sharpest columnist turns her sights on… everything?
Candid Memoir: From getting a wasp stoned as a teenager to navigating marriage, Moran holds nothing back in these deeply personal and laugh-out-loud funny essays.Celebrity Interviews: Go backstage with Lady Gaga at a Berlin sex club, share a cigarette with Keith Richards, and spend the day with Paul McCartney.Feminist Essays: Sharp, insightful, and never preachy, Moran tackles everything from the case for employment quotas to the complicated politics of a woman’s wardrobe.Pop Culture Deep Dives: Find out why Ghostbusters is the greatest film of all time and explore the "frumious Cumberbatch" in her celebrated reviews of Sherlock.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Moran, a novelist and career pop culture critic, doesn't consider herself one of the "professional political people," but emboldened by the success of her 2011 book How to Be a Woman a feminist manifesto, of sorts she's taken on even more tough topics, including political ones, in this collection of her columns from the Times of London. The collection is organized loosely into themes such as "change" and "arguing on the Internet," with new introductions that tie everything together. Moran touches on a wide array of topics, including Daft Punk's hit song "Get Lucky," Hillary Clinton, social media, class differences, and abortion. Moran's endless sense of humor, enthusiasm for punching upward, and liberal use of the word you makes reading the collection like hanging out with a loud and chatty friend ("WHERE ARE THE SEXY BITS?" she demands of Tolstoy's War and Peace, in an essay on the importance of reading). Readers don't have to be interested in or knowledgeable about everything she references (such as U.K. politics) to have fun with Moran, but they do need a silly sense of humor.
Customer Reviews
Gorgeous and Hilarious
Clever, insightful, and very, very funny, "Moranthology" had me bursting into laughter, craving more Sherlock episodes, Googling Keith Richards urban legends and writing down a lot of glorious words and pitch-perfect turns of phrase that I will be quoting and over-using in the near future, likely to the first, amusement, and then, annoyance of anyone in earshot (or on the Internet). Brilliant. Buy it, adore it, and remember to give credit where it is due if your friends notice you seem suddenly more clever and well-phrased than usual.