I Know You Are But What Am I?

I Know You Are But What Am I?
Author: Heather Birrell
Publisher: Coach House Books
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2000-04-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1552451399

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Kleptomaniacs, convicts, roof-walkers and homicidal hippies: here are children and adults, men and women, all struggling to define themselves. The stories in I know you are but what am I? are like snow domes - perfect little self-contained worlds that you can hold in your hand, turn upside down, shake until meaning settles in a hundred different ways. Young Misha learns about the complexities of grownup love when his mother is bitten by a stingray. Oldrick must come to terms with his ex-girlfriend's new lover and a belligerent barista in the midst of a smelly garbage strike. Bus-bound Marion, in love with a married man, finds solace in conversation with a convict and home-schooled Rational gets a tutor and learns that his 'hunker in the bunker' family isn't quite what he thought it was. 'Heather Birrell's sentences conjure worlds. These stories scintillate. Smart, sharp, alluring, they're full of the chance encounters, mysteries, missed connections and unexpected tenderness of contemporary life.' - Catherine Bush

I Know You Are, but What Am I?

I Know You Are, but What Am I?
Author: J.J. Russell
Publisher: Evergrowth Coach LLC
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2024-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Murder, mayhem, and a goddess with control issues—just another day in my paranormal paradise. Welcome to Ricketts, the town where the weird, the wild, and the wicked come out to play. I’m Vi, your not-so-average supernatural liaison. Things were going pretty smoothly until the local priest met a grisly end, and now everyone’s pointing fingers at me. With the goddess Artemis trying to play puppeteer with my body, a vampire friend whose blood I’m trying really hard not to thirst for, and a new deputy hell-bent on seeing me in cuffs, I’ve got a lot on my plate. And oh, let’s not forget the monster hunters who’ve heard there’s a new Vânători in town and are itching for a showdown. Armed only with my wits, unreliable magic from the goddess, and my trusty hellhound, Ramble, I’ve got to clear my name and figure out who’s behind these gruesome murders before I end up in jail—or worse. In a town where the bizarre is an everyday occurrence, I Know You Are But What Am I? is a thrilling paranormal mystery set in a world where the only thing more unpredictable than the monsters is Vi herself.

I Know You Are, but What Am I?

I Know You Are, but What Am I?
Author: Cait McKinney
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2024-07-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1452972044

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How Pee-wee and his playhouse help us reimagine our relationships to technology I Know You Are, but What Am I? explores the cultural legacy of Pee-wee Herman, the cult television star of Pee-wee’s Playhouse. This children’s show—that was also for adults—ran on network TV from 1986 to 1990 and starred comedian Paul Reubens as Herman, a queer man-boy whose playhouse, the set for the show, was tricked out with a profusion of animate computational toys and technologies. Cait McKinney shows how three defining scenes from the show inform, and even foretell and challenge, our present moment: the playhouse as an alternative precursor to networked smart homes that foregrounds caring and ethical relationships between humans and technologies; a reparative retelling of Reubens’s career-wrecking 1991 arrest for indecent exposure inside a Florida adult film theater as part of an AIDS-phobic, antigay sting operation; and worn-out, Talking Pee-wee dolls and their broken afterlives on eBay and YouTube. McKinney looks at how queer people who were children in the 1980s remember and relate to Pee-wee now, showing that the moral panic about sexuality, gender, and children from the past can help us refute anti-trans and anti-queer political movements organized today.

I Know I Am, But What Are You?

I Know I Am, But What Are You?
Author: Samantha Bee
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2011-02-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1439142742

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Candid, outspoken, laugh-out-loud funny essays from the much-loved Samantha Bee, the Most Senior Correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart . Critics have called her “sweet, adorable, and vicious.” But there is so much more to be said about Samantha Bee. For one, she’s Canadian. Whatever that means. And now, she opens up for the very first time about her checkered Canadian past. With charming candor, she admits to her Lennie from Of Mice and Men–style love of baby animals, her teenage crime spree as one-half of a car-thieving couple (Bonnie and Clyde in Bermuda shorts and braces), and the fact that strangers seem compelled to show her their genitals. She also details her intriguing career history, which includes stints working in a frame store, at a penis clinic, and as a Japanese anime character in a touring children’s show. Samantha delves into all these topics and many more in this thoroughly hilarious, unabashedly frank collection of personal essays. Whether detailing the creepiness that ensues when strangers assume that your mom is your lesbian lover, or recalling her girlhood crush on Jesus (who looked like Kris Kristofferson and sang like Kenny Loggins), Samantha turns the spotlight on her own imperfect yet highly entertaining life as relentlessly as she skewers hapless interview subjects on The Daily Show. She shares her unique point of view on a variety of subjects as wide ranging as her deep affinity for old people, to her hatred of hot ham. It’s all here, in irresistible prose that will leave you in stitches and eager for more.

I Know Who You Are But What Am I?

I Know Who You Are But What Am I?
Author: Ali Sands
Publisher: Thomas Noble Books
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2019-02-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781945586200

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What does it mean for a partner if the person they love changes their sex?With a refreshing voice of raw honesty and vulnerability, Ali Sands journaled her search for identity as her partner physically transitioned from female to male. Beginning with the awareness that her partner is transgender, through hormone therapy and multiple surgeries, Ali and her partner experienced many physical and emotional changes.In this courageous and gripping memoir, Ali shares her experiences as she navigates her partner's transition. Holding strong to her love for her partner and her belief in her own truths, Ali persevered through family rejection and found that chosen family supported her journey. She also grew an enduring love and power found in committing to an ever- changing relationship.A poignant and searching account of a brave woman who almost lost her own identity even as she helped the love of her life establish his. -Ira Wood, The Lowdown, WOMR-FMSands' story is...[an] unflinching view into the rollercoaster of a rapidly changing relationship. Sands spares no detail, from weekly testosterone injections to reconstructive surgeries to her own emotional challenges as [her partner] begins to navigate the world as a man. -Sofia Starmack, Journalist, Provincetown BannerHers is a lesson for all of us who are lucky enough to look back at love and its evolution with our partners. A skilled storyteller, Ali has the ability to tell an intimate personal tale in a way that has global relevance. -Ian Edwards, Producer, TEDx Provincetown

In on the Great Joke

In on the Great Joke
Author: Laura Broadbent
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781552453360

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In a blend of essayistic poetics, Broadbent wields alchemy, translation and necromancy to bring readers In on the Great Joke. What do you get when you cross Lao Tzu and an application for a university teaching application? What do you get when you give W. G. Sebald and Clarice Lispector the ability to speak from the afterlife? What happens if a girl is stopped at a red light for an entire year? In on the Great Joke is a palace of hybridity, where film structure informs poetry, poetry alters the essay, and the essay recalibrates the joke. Broadbent has lent her ear to the dead, the living, the voiceless, to give us the punchline of what it means to be intellectually alive. 'Then there's Laura Broadbent. She is, as are her poems, full of sultry verve and invective. Watch out. Her lines are dizzying and always on point.' - Michael Nardone, Hobo Magazine Praise for Oh There You Are I Can't See You Is It Raining?: 'Oh There You Are... succeeds because it is accessible. Intellectually rigorous and evasive, it also makes itself emotionally available.' - Justin F. Ridgeway, Broken Pencil

Rays from the Rose Cross

Rays from the Rose Cross
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 542
Release: 1918
Genre: Rosicrucians
ISBN:

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The World is a Heartbreaker

The World is a Heartbreaker
Author: Sherwin Tjia
Publisher: Coach House Books
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2005
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781552451533

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The World Is a Heartbreaker inaugurates a new subgenre: imposter poetry. This collection is a set of 1600 pseudohaikus, bite-sized chunks of poetic goodness shotgunned at the distracted masses. What's a pseudohaiku? It's the poetry of pure indulgence, a three-liner without the constraint, the pretension or the 5-7-5 syllable form. The subject matter? Relationships, cats, insecurities - themes recur and build into a kind of non-linear narrative. These micropoems are easily digestible yet remarkably acute, a catalogue of scattered thoughts and pointed observations that go down like potato chips - betcha can't read just one. Sometimes sexy, sometimes scandalous, sometimes sentimental, but always three lines long, these pseudohaikus are the future of poetry in a world awash with sound bites, news clips, catchphrases. There are no pleasures like the guilty ones. About Tjia's earlier books: 'Gentle Fictions is a tender, playful and inspiring poetry collection ... Tjia's poems are often silly, cute and irreverent, but artfully so.' - Matrix '[Pedigree Girls] is hilarious. It's also filled with raw, biting social criticism. [It's] the weirdest comix you'll read all year ... discover the seductiveness of nihilism by way of an author with a sharp sense of humour.' - NOW

The Song of Achilles

The Song of Achilles
Author: Madeline Miller
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2012-04-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408826135

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WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfill his destiny. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus goes with him, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.