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  • Dangerous Fictions

    The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality

    by Lyta Gold ...
    **Honorable Mention for the Pop Culture Association AwardsIn 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Heroes & Hellions

    Sirens Benefit Anthology

    by Natalie J. Case (editor), Edith Hope Bishop, Lyta Gold, Rowan Beckett Grigsby, Christine Hanolsy, A.K. Hudson, Lola Lindle, Cynthia Porter, Kristen Blount ...
    Series series Sirens Benefit Anthology
    Defining who is a hero and who is a hellion seems like a matter of perspective. Those who dance to their own drummers and refuse to conform to expectations are often called out as hellions, as those who make trouble for trouble's sake. But is a hero really much different? This collection offers eight stories of strong people making hard choices, doing the best they can in the places they are. You ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Witches & Warriors

    by Jessica Corra (editor), Cass Morris, Edith Hope Bishop, Dorian Lindle, J. Lynn Baker, Kate Larking, Kristin Blount, Lola Lindle, Jennifer Adam, Nivair H. Gabriel, Kallyn Hunter, Lyta Gold, Rook Riley, Jessica Aelwood ...
    Witches are often portrayed as old and frail, but they wield tremendous power whether through magic, potions, or poisons. Warriors are fighters: they seem to sacrifice traditional feminine values to protect others. At least, that's what the stereotypes would have us think. Witches and Warriors seem antithetical somehow for their opposing strengths: they represent spirit and body in many ways. This ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Dangerous Fictions

    The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality

    by Lyta Gold ...
    Narrated by Amy O'Donnell ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 52 min

    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 ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change

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    **"Subtly altered how I see the world." —Michelle Goldberg, New York Times“[Status and Culture] consistently posits theories I'd never previously considered that instantly feel obvious.” —Chuck Klosterman, author of The Nineties“Why are you the way that you are? Status and Culture explains nearly everything about the things you choose to be—and how the society we live in takes shape in the process ... Read more

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  • Telling True Stories

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  • No Judgment

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    "The essay collection everyone’s talking about."—New YorkA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024: Elle, The Millions, LitHub, Nylon, BookPage, PureWow, and moreFrom the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new pieces about the role of cultural criticism in our ever-changing world.In her writing for Harper’s, t... ... Read more

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  • Convergence Culture

    Where Old and New Media Collide

    by Henry Jenkins ...
    Winner of the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award2007 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA classic study on the dynamic between an individual and different media channelsConvergence Culture maps a new territory: where old and new media intersect, where grassroots and corporate media collide, and where the powers of the media producer and the power of th... ... Read more

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  • The Story Paradox

    How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down

    by Jonathan Gottschall ...
    Storytelling, a tradition that built human civilization, may soon destroy itHumans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of stories, argues that there is a dark side to storytelling we can no longer ignore. Storytelling, the very tradition that built human civilization, may ... Read more

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  • Everything and Less

    The Novel in the Age of Amazon

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    **National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistBest Book of Fall (Esquire) and a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 (Lit Hub)What Has Happened to Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism?**Since it was first launched in 1994, Amazon has changed the world of literature. The “Everything Store” has not just transformed how we buy books; it has affected what we buy, and even what we read. In Everything and ... Read more

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  • Art in the After-Culture

    Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy

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    It is a peculiar moment for art, as it becomes both increasingly rarefied and associated with elite lifestyle culture, while simultaneously ubiquitous, with the boom of "creative" industries and the proliferation of new technologies for making art. In these important essays, Ben Davis covers everything from Instagram to artificial intelligence, eco-art to cultural appropriation. Critical, ... Read more

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  • Looking Closer 4

    Critical Writings on Graphic Design

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