Eating lightbulbs and other essays / Steve Fellner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fellner, Steve, author.

Series:

Machete

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fellner, Steve.

Gay men.

Mothers and sons.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

viii, 231 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Personal essays detailing the triumphs, traumas, and failures of the author's formative years as a young gay man in the late twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Self-Portrait as a 1970s Cineplex Movie Theatre (An Abecedarian)

Eating Lightbulbs

On Redemption

II. No

Inside

Safe Haven

III. How to Survive a Baby Shower

On Apology

A Letter to David Buckel

Two Truths and a Lie

"I see flies, I see mosquitos, but I have never seen a gay man."

Are You There Judy? It's Me, Steve

On Beauty

Self-Portrait as a 1980s Cineplex Movie Theatre (An Abecedarian)

IV. Ten Anecdotes about the Destruction of Books

Popsicles

On Insignificance

The Pencil Box

On Love, Sex, and Thorn Gunn

Mad Max

Inspiration

On Fragmentation

My mother is suffering from uterine cancer and all I can think about is the '80s

V. On Marxism, My Mother's Body, and the State of Creative Nonfiction

Deleted Scenes from My Unpublished Memoir.

ISBN:

9780814258071

0814258077

OCLC:

1246283614