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Book

Meaty : essays

Call Number

  • 814 I653.2 (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018.

Physical Description

xvi, 252 pages ; 21 cm

Uniform Title

Essays. Selections

Contents

  • Part 1. Brunch : an Instagram frittata. At thirty ; Awkward first date ; I want to write your mom's Match.com profile ; My mother, my daughter ; The triplets ; This is why I'm poor ; Skin rashes and arthritis ; The tapeworm diet ; I want to put a fat bitch on network television
  • Part 2. Good (food) in bed : having diarrhea all the time is the worst. Milk and oreos ; Black Beauty ; The many varieties of hospital broth ; The terror of love ; Sorry I shit on your dick ; How to get your disgusting meat carcass ready for some new, hot sex ; Massive wet asses
  • Part 3. Dinner on the couch. Forest Whitaker's neck ; Bitches are my jam ; A bearded gentleman ; Would dying alone really be so terrible? ; I really don't eat this much salad! ; Thumbsucker ; I should have a car with power windows by now --- End : ooh, dessert and cocktails!

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