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Or to be certain that a book you've found on our website is also here on our shelves, feel free to call us at Fun and funny, yes, but also surprising, moving, and thoughtful. In , Maris Kreizman wanted to combine her fierce love for pop culture with a lifelong passion for reading, and so the blog Slaughterhouse was born.
By matching poignant passages from literature with popular moments from television, film, and real life, Maris' work instantly caught the attention and adoration of thousands. And it's easy to see why. Slaughterhouse is subversively brilliant, finding the depth in the shallows of reality television, and the levity in Lahiri.
A picture of Taylor Swift is paired with Joan Didion's quote, "Above all, she is the girl who 'feels things'. The girl ever wounded, ever young.
With over color photographs from some of popular culture's most iconic moments, Kreizman shows why comparing Walter White to Faust makes sense in our celebrity obsessed, tv crazed society. It is an argument that works of what we consider high and low culture can not only be appreciated by the same people but can be placed in direct conversation with each other.
What Slaughterhouse does, in a gentle and curious way that distinguishes it utterly from many similarly formatted books, is to push those connections forward.
Great for book nerds and lovers of pop culture. And easier to get the rights to their images. There are moments when it can be heavy-handed but I think that show is magic for many reasons. Smith, for making us read that in high school , that accompanies a photo of Melanie Griffith and Joan Cusack from "Working Girl" great 80s movie, look it up Millennials. In fact, you can experience the magic yourself on Sunday, November 15, when BookCourt hosts its own Slaughterhouse event.
It's fun and funny, yes, but also surprising, moving, and thoughtful. Slaughterhouse is subversively brilliant, finding the depth in the shallows of reality television, and the levity in Lahiri.
Slaughterhouse and millions of other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Slaughterhouse Hardcover – October 6, MARIS KREIZMAN is the creator of Slaughterhouse , a blog that celebrates the intersection of her two great loves-literature and TV. Oct 7, The title of Maris Kreizman's Slaughterhouse is, on the one hand, catchy and funny, and it certainly communicates the book's basic.
A picture of Taylor Swift is paired with Joan Didion's quote, " Above all, she is the girl who 'feels things'. The girl ever wounded, ever young. With over color photographs from some of popular culture's most iconic moments, Kreizman shows why comparing Walter White to Faust makes sense in our celebrity obsessed, tv crazed society.
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