Mean boys : a personal history
(Book)
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Published
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.
ISBN
9781635577945
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 21 cm
Status
EAST WENATCHEE PUBLIC LIBRARY - Biography & Autobiography
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Published
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9781635577945
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
"You know them when you see them: mean boys take up space, wielding cruelty to claim their place in the pecking order. Some mean boys make art or music or fashion; others make memes. Mean boys stomp the runways in Milan and Paris; mean boys marched at Charlottesville. And in the eyes of critic and style expert Geoffrey Mak, mean boys are the emblem of our society: an era ravenous for novelty, always thirsting for the next edgy thing, even at our peril. ... 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 [him] 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"--
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Mak, G. (2024). Mean boys: a personal history . Bloomsbury Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mak, Geoffrey. 2024. Mean Boys: A Personal History. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mak, Geoffrey. Mean Boys: A Personal History Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Mak, Geoffrey. Mean Boys: A Personal History Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.
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