| Eating Lightbulbs and Other Essays Contributor(s): Fellner, Steve (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814258077 ISBN-13: 9780814258071 Publisher: Mad Creek Books OUR PRICE: $21.56 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Lgbt - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2021015584 |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.43" W x 8.43" (0.60 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Eating Lightbulbs and Other Essays, Steve Fellner traces the seriocomic absurdities of his own mind and its obsessions with family, mental illness, film, poetry, and gay sex. His search for love finds its outlets and objects wherever it can: in an imaginary 1970s Cineplex movie theatre, at a baby shower, or in a co-ed sexual abuse support group; via a letter penned to the ghost of an environmental activist who killed himself; or in the form of the AIDS quilt, lava lamps, amoebas, and a famous queer poet who didn't know he existed. As he charts the inherently flawed ways he--and we--live and love, Fellner is always ready to subvert victim narratives even if he has to commit a few (or more than a few) acts of betrayal along the way. Unflinching and sidelong, laugh-out-loud funny, and as sharp and unpredictable as shards of fine glass, these essays look straight at the moments in life most of us would rather forget. |