Something that may shock and discredit you / Daniel Mallory Ortberg.
2020
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Essays. Selections
Title
Something that may shock and discredit you / Daniel Mallory Ortberg.
Edition
First Atria books hardcover edition.
Imprint
New York : Atria Books, 2020.
Description
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When you were younger and you got home early and you were the first one home and no one else was out on the street, did you ever worry that the rapture had happened without you? I did.
Chapter titles from the on the nose, po-faced transmasculine memoir I am trying not to write
My brothers, my brothers' keepers and me
Help me brother, or I sink
Apollo and Hyacinthus die playing ultimate frisbee, and I died watching teenage boys play video games
Lord Byron has a birthday and takes his leave
Reasons for transitioning, in order
If you can't parallel park, you have to get a sex change
Unwanted coming-out disorder
The stages of not going on T
Oh Lacanian philosopher we love you get up
The several mortes d'Arthur
Cosmopolitan magazine cover stories for bewildered future trans men living in the greater Chicago area between the years 1994-2002
Marcus Aurelius prepares for the new year
Evelyn Waugh and the opposite of communion
Jacob and the angel wrasslin' till noon at least
Mary and Martha and Jesus and the dishes
Columbo in six positions
On Wednesdays we mean girls wore pink
The Golden Girls and the mountains in the sea
Captain James T. Kirk is a beautiful lesbian, and I'm not sure exactly how to explain that
Rilke takes a turn
Duckie from Pretty in Pink is also a beautiful lesbian, and I can prove it with the intensity of my feelings
I have a friend who thinks umbrellas are enemies of the collective good, and I have a sneaking suspicion they may be right
Sir Gawain just wants to leave Castle Make-out
No one understands Henry VIII like I do
"I love your vibe," and other things I've said to men
House Hunters
And His name shall be called Something Hard to Remember
Pirates at the funeral: "It feels like someone died" but someone actually didn't
Nora Ephron's I Feel Bad About My Neck, transmasculine edition
Powerful T4T energy in Steve Martin's The Jerk
Did you know that Athena used to be a tomboy?
It's hard to feel sad reading Hans Christian Andersen because it's just another story about a bummed-out candlestick that loves a broom and dies
Dirtbag Sappho
Dante runs into Beatrice in paradise
How I intend to comport myself when I have abs someday
Paul and Second Timothy: the transmasculine epistles
Something nice happens to Oedipus
Destry Rides Again, or Jimmy Stewart has a body and so do I
The matriarchs of Avonlea begrudgingly accept your transition / Men of Anne of Green Gables experience
The opposite of baptism.
Chapter titles from the on the nose, po-faced transmasculine memoir I am trying not to write
My brothers, my brothers' keepers and me
Help me brother, or I sink
Apollo and Hyacinthus die playing ultimate frisbee, and I died watching teenage boys play video games
Lord Byron has a birthday and takes his leave
Reasons for transitioning, in order
If you can't parallel park, you have to get a sex change
Unwanted coming-out disorder
The stages of not going on T
Oh Lacanian philosopher we love you get up
The several mortes d'Arthur
Cosmopolitan magazine cover stories for bewildered future trans men living in the greater Chicago area between the years 1994-2002
Marcus Aurelius prepares for the new year
Evelyn Waugh and the opposite of communion
Jacob and the angel wrasslin' till noon at least
Mary and Martha and Jesus and the dishes
Columbo in six positions
On Wednesdays we mean girls wore pink
The Golden Girls and the mountains in the sea
Captain James T. Kirk is a beautiful lesbian, and I'm not sure exactly how to explain that
Rilke takes a turn
Duckie from Pretty in Pink is also a beautiful lesbian, and I can prove it with the intensity of my feelings
I have a friend who thinks umbrellas are enemies of the collective good, and I have a sneaking suspicion they may be right
Sir Gawain just wants to leave Castle Make-out
No one understands Henry VIII like I do
"I love your vibe," and other things I've said to men
House Hunters
And His name shall be called Something Hard to Remember
Pirates at the funeral: "It feels like someone died" but someone actually didn't
Nora Ephron's I Feel Bad About My Neck, transmasculine edition
Powerful T4T energy in Steve Martin's The Jerk
Did you know that Athena used to be a tomboy?
It's hard to feel sad reading Hans Christian Andersen because it's just another story about a bummed-out candlestick that loves a broom and dies
Dirtbag Sappho
Dante runs into Beatrice in paradise
How I intend to comport myself when I have abs someday
Paul and Second Timothy: the transmasculine epistles
Something nice happens to Oedipus
Destry Rides Again, or Jimmy Stewart has a body and so do I
The matriarchs of Avonlea begrudgingly accept your transition / Men of Anne of Green Gables experience
The opposite of baptism.
Summary
"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 of the beauty of William Shatner to a sinister reimagining of HGTV's House Hunters, and featuring figures as varied as Anne of Green Gables, Columbo, Nora Ephron, Apollo, and the cast of Mean Girls, Something That May Shock and Discredit You is a hilarious and emotionally exhilarating compendium that combines personal history with cultural history to make you see yourself and those around you entirely anew. It further establishes Ortberg as one of the most innovative and engaging voices of his generation--and it may just change the way you think about Lord Byron forever."--Amazon.com.
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Print version: Ortberg, Daniel Mallory. Essays. Selections. Something that may shock and discredit you. First Atria Books hardcover edition. New York : Atria Books, 2020
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English
ISBN
9781982105235 (electronic book)
1982105232
1982105232
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