American Voyeur: Dispatches from the Far Reaches of Modern Life Contributor(s): Denizet-Lewis, Benoit (Author) |
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ISBN: 1416539158 ISBN-13: 9781416539155 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2010 Annotation: Collected articles by the groundbreaking "New York Times" journalist on the subjects of modern love, sex, and romance. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Essays - Social Science | Sociology - General |
Dewey: 306.709 |
LCCN: 2009016589 |
Physical Information: 0.77" H x 7.12" W x 8.46" (0.60 lbs) 320 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS, one of the most perceptive and interesting journalists writing today, takes us into some unusual precincts of American society in American Voyeur. Denizet-Lewis made news with his New York Times Magazine cover story Double Lives on the Down Low, included here, which ignited a firestorm by revealing a subculture of African-American men who have sex with other men but who don't consider themselves gay. In American Voyeur, he also takes us inside a summer camp for pro-life teenagers, a New Hampshire town where two young brothers committed suicide, a social group for lipstick lesbians, a middle school where a girl secretly lives as a boy, a college where fraternity boys face the daunting prospect of sobriety, a state where legally married young gay men are turning out to be more like their parents than anyone might have suspected, a high school where dating has been replaced by hooking up, and other intersections of youth culture and sexuality. Peer behind the curtain of modern American life with this remarkable collection. |
Contributor Bio(s): Denizet-Lewis, Benoit: - Benoit Denizet-Lewis is a writer with The New York Times Magazine and an assistant professor of writing and publishing at Emerson College. He is the author of Travels With Casey, America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life, and has contributed to Sports Illustrated, The New Republic, Details, Slate, Salon, Out, and many others. Denizet-Lewis lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Follow him @BenoitDLewis. |