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Author: Lyta Gold Publisher: Catapult ISBN: 1593767706 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 353
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In a political moment when social panics over literature are at their peak, Dangerous Fictions is a mind-expanding treatise on the nature of fictional stories as cultural battlegrounds for power. Fictional stories have long held an uncanny power over hearts and minds, especially those of young people. In Dangerous Fictions, Lyta Gold traces arguments both historical and contemporary that have labeled fiction as dark, immoral, frightening, or poisonous. Within each she asks: How “dangerous” is fiction, really? And what about it provokes waves of moral panic and even censorship? Gold argues that any panic about art is largely a disguised panic about power. There have been versions of these same fights over fiction for centuries. By exposing fiction as a social danger and a battleground of immediate public concern, we can see what each side really wants—the right to shape the future of a world deeply in flux and a distraction from more pressing material concerns about money, access, and the hard work of politics. From novels about people driven insane by reading novels to “copaganda” TV shows that influence how viewers regard the police, Gold uses her signature wit, research, and fearless commentary to point readers toward a more substantial question: Fiction may be dangerous to us, but aren’t we also dangerous to it?
Author: Susan Sanford Blades Publisher: ISBN: 9780889713888 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 224
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Fake it so Real takes on the fallout from a punk-rock lifestyle--the future of "no future"--and its effect on the subsequent generations of one family. In June of 1983, Gwen, a gnarly Nancy Spungen lookalike, meets Damian, the enigmatic leader of a punk band. Seven years and two unplanned pregnancies later, Damian abandons Gwen, leaving her to raise their two daughters, Sara and Meg, on her own. The fourteen stories that make up this book usher Gwen and her daughters through five decades, haunted by Damian's ghost. Fuelled by vodka and scrappy determination, Gwen balances a responsibility to her daughters with her narcissistic, self-destructive tendencies. Sara and Meg scramble through adolescence and enter adulthood walking the line between selfishness and self-sacrifice, attempting to avoid their parents' mistakes, all the while making a whole new set of mistakes of their own. In the voices of Gwen, Damian, Sara, Meg, Damian's bandmate and Gwen's true love, these stories weave a raw and honest tapestry of family life as told from the underbelly, focused on the grey area between right and wrong, the idea that we are all equally culpable and justified in our actions, and the pain and ecstasy that accompany a life lived authentically.
Author: Craig Robinson Publisher: Crown Books For Young Readers ISBN: 0553523511 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 146
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Having faked his way into the Music and Art Academy, a performing arts school for gifted students where his talented older sister rules, sixth-grader Jake, a jokester who can barely play an instrument, will have to think of something quick before the last laugh is on him.
Author: Sabrina Horn Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers ISBN: 1523091517 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 146
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An award-winning CEO and communications expert shows how authentic leadership eliminates the need for the shortcuts that sabotage success. “Fake it till you make it” just doesn't work—at least not long enough to build a sustainable business. Driven to succeed under constant pressure, entrepreneurs and business leaders alike can be tempted to exaggerate their strengths, minimize weaknesses, and bend the truth. Through the twin lenses of running her own national public relations firm and advising thousands of executives for a quarter-century, Sabrina Horn revisits the core of leadership; defines authentic, reality-based business integrity; and shows readers how to attain and maintain it. With firsthand accounts of sticky situations and painful mistakes, Horn lays out workable strategies, frameworks, and mental maps to help leaders gain the clarity of thought necessary to make sound business decisions, even when there are no right answers. In her straightforward, no-nonsense style, she shares the power of humility and empathy, mentorship and self-assessment, and a strong core value system to build a leader's confidence and resilience. Horn's fake-free advice will empower readers to disarm fear, organize risk, manage setbacks and crises, deal with losing and loneliness, and create a culture and brand designed for long-term success.
Author: Pippa Grant Publisher: ISBN: 9781940517865 Category : Languages : en Pages : 294
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When a grumpy athlete's grandma tries to play matchmaker, he turns to a jilted bride who desperately needs to NOT fall in love to play his fake girlfriend.
Author: Jennifer E. Smith Publisher: Delacorte Press ISBN: 0399559388 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 434
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This romantic story of hope, chance, and change from the author of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight is one JENNY HAN says is filled with all of her "favorite things," MORGAN MATSON calls “something wonderful” and STEPHANIE PERKINS says “is rich with the intensity of real love.” Alice has never believed in luck, but that doesn’t stop her from rooting for love. After pining for her best friend Teddy for years, she jokingly gifts him a lottery ticket—attached to a note professing her love—on his birthday. Then, the unthinkable happens: he actually wins. At first, it seems like the luckiest thing on earth. But as Teddy gets swept up by his $140 million windfall and fame and fortune come between them, Alice is forced to consider whether her stroke of good fortune might have been anything but. She bought a winning lottery ticket. He collected the cash. Will they realize that true love’s the real prize? Featured in Seventeen Magazine's "What's Hot Now" “Windfall is about all of my favorite things—a girl’s first big love, her first big loss, and—her first big luck.” —JENNY HAN, New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before “Windfall is perfectly named; reading it, I felt like I had suddenly found something wonderful.” —MORGAN MATSON, New York Times bestselling author of The Unexpected Everything “Windfall is rich with the intensity of real love— in all its heartache and hope.” —STEPHANIE PERKINS, New York Times bestselling author of Isla and the Happily Ever After "If you’re looking for your next great read, then you’re in 'luck!'" —Justine Magazine
Author: Anne-Catrin Schultz Publisher: Editions Axel Menges ISBN: 9783869050188 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 0
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The term fake suggests forgery but also imitation and reproduction - all processes familiar to contemporary cultural production and everyday life. Fakes in the art world have been the subject of research and publications, while fake buildings and spaces have received less attention in contemporary discourse. This book represents a series of snapshots of the space between fake and real, an exploration that quickly leads to the two attributes being entangled in contemporary attempts to generate genuine authenticity by replicating nostalgic details and superficial references.
Author: Lyta Gold Publisher: Catapult ISBN: 1593767706 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 353
Book Description
In a political moment when social panics over literature are at their peak, Dangerous Fictions is a mind-expanding treatise on the nature of fictional stories as cultural battlegrounds for power. Fictional stories have long held an uncanny power over hearts and minds, especially those of young people. In Dangerous Fictions, Lyta Gold traces arguments both historical and contemporary that have labeled fiction as dark, immoral, frightening, or poisonous. Within each she asks: How “dangerous” is fiction, really? And what about it provokes waves of moral panic and even censorship? Gold argues that any panic about art is largely a disguised panic about power. There have been versions of these same fights over fiction for centuries. By exposing fiction as a social danger and a battleground of immediate public concern, we can see what each side really wants—the right to shape the future of a world deeply in flux and a distraction from more pressing material concerns about money, access, and the hard work of politics. From novels about people driven insane by reading novels to “copaganda” TV shows that influence how viewers regard the police, Gold uses her signature wit, research, and fearless commentary to point readers toward a more substantial question: Fiction may be dangerous to us, but aren’t we also dangerous to it?
Author: Jessica F. Publisher: Accidental Love ISBN: 9781958151259 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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I needed a fake wife with no strings attached.But I Knocked her up, and now we are having a baby!I was born rich and loved to be a playboy.I had the looks, the body, and soon all of my family's wealth.Everything was going perfect until my father threw a stipulation into his testament.Fall in love, get married, or I would be out of his will.After weeks of searching, I remembered beautiful Cecile.The only woman to ever reject me.I reached out to her to help me out, and she agreed.Everything was supposed to be fake until we spent a wild night together.Now I genuinely want her as my wife, but I need to show her that I can commit to her, and that's going to be a problem.
Author: Mike Walker Publisher: Phoenix Books ISBN: 1614670048 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 240
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In the olden days.... Roman Emperors threw Christians to the lions! Gladiators battled to the death! Mayans sacrificed virgins! Witches were burned at the stake! Today? We’ve got REALITY TV! The hot, new genre that suddenly snuck up and captured our imagination as: • Cops put us in prowl cars to pursue loonies, thugs and druggies! • Survivor trapped us on an island with naked, flaming fattie Richard Hatch! • American Idol gobbled up American TV—and spat out the bones! How did reality programming “hijack” TV? Read the eye-popping exposé that takes you straight to Reality Hell. Sex…Drugs…Dirty Tricks…and Scandals! Giggle as Paris Hilton & Nicole Richie get barf-y in the sticks and hump-y with the hicks…. Boggle at never-before-revealed secrets behind Simon Cowell’s manly man-boobs…. Gasp as wee Mini-Me takes a public pee…. And much, much more. REALITY TV! The Super Bowl of Voyeurism…. But JENNIFER ANISTON hates it! “I have no interest in that ‘Idol’ shit,” snarls Jen—who sneers that “humiliation and degradation” make contestants look like monkeys playing in poop. Jennifer’s disgust is a touchstone for this book—which is actually dedicated to her by the author. REALITY TV! Love it or hate it…. You know you want to watch!
Author: William Ian Miller Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521830188 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 310
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This book is about the intrusive fear that we may not be what we appear to be, or worse, that we may be only what we appear to be and nothing more. It is concerned with the worry of being exposed as frauds in our profession, cads in our love lives, as less than virtuously motivated actors when we are being agreeable, charitable, or decent. Why do we so often mistrust the motives of our own deeds, thinking them fake, though the beneficiary of them gives us full credit? Much of this book deals with that self-tormenting self-consciousness. It is about roles and identity, discussing our engagement in the roles we play, our doubts about our identities amidst this flux of roles, and thus about anxieties of authenticity.
Author: Lyta Gold
Author: Susan Sanford Blades
Author: Craig Robinson
Author: Sabrina Horn
Author: Pippa Grant
Author: Jennifer E. Smith
Author: Anne-Catrin Schultz
Author: Lyta Gold
Author: Jessica F.
Author: Mike Walker
Author: William Ian Miller