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Mean boys : a personal history  Cover Image Book Book

Mean boys : a personal history

Mak, Geoffrey (author.).

Summary:

Fusing personal essay and cultural critique, a critic and style expert chronicles his journey to join a global, influential elite until he's forced to confront the price of mistaking status for belonging in a world designed to make us want what's bad for us.
"In this pyrotechnic memoir-in-essays, Mak ranges widely over our landscape of paranoia, crisis, and frenetic, clickable consumption. He grants readers an inside pass to the spaces where culture was made and unmade over the past decade, from the antiseptic glare of white-walled galleries to the darkest corners of Berlin techno clubs. As the gay son of an evangelical minister, Mak fled to those spaces, hoping to join a global, influential elite. But when calamity struck, it forced Mak to confront the costs of mistaking status for belonging. Fusing personal essay and cultural critique, Mean Boys investigates exile and return, transgression and forgiveness, and the value of faith, empathy, and friendship in a world designed to make us want what is bad for us" -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Edgelords
My father, the minister
Identify despite itself
In Arcadia ego
The rules to live by
Anti-fashion
California gothic
Mean boys.

Item details

  • ISBN: 1635577942
  • ISBN: 9781635577945
  • Physical Description: xii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
    print
  • Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-264).
Formatted Contents Note:
Edgelords
My father, the minister
Identify despite itself
In Arcadia ego
The rules to live by
Anti-fashion
California gothic
Mean boys.
Subject: Mak, Geoffrey
Asian American gay men United States Biography Anecdotes
Asian American authors United States Biography Anecdotes
Sexual minorities United States Biography Anecdotes
Asian American LGBTQ+ people
Asian gay men
Genre: LGBTQ+ biographies.
LGBTQ+ autobiographies.
Gay biographies.
Essays.
Autobiographies.

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Conyers-Rockdale Library System:
      Nancy Guinn Memorial Library
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      Bull St. Library
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