03203cam a2200361 4500 1076574719 TxGeo 20231216120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781477318706 1477318704 B07KFQSCWH Amazon 0b6b4430-726b-4286-b10c-6edde952ee70 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9546675 OverDrive (Product ID) TxGeo Bird, Sarah. Recent Studies Indicate [Libby (Advantage)] : The Best of Sarah Bird. University of Texas Press, 2019. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1338kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Essays. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. Humor (Nonfiction.) HTML:<p><b>“These essays are a pleasure; Bird makes her readers feel smart, urbane, and in on the joke, and that their own stories are worth sharing too.” —<i>Publishers Weekly</i></b><br /> &#160;<br /> When Sarah Bird arrived in Austin in 1973 in pursuit of a boyfriend who was “hotter than lava,” she found an abundance of storytelling inspiration (for example, her sweetheart left her for Scientology, but she got to taste a morsel of Lynda Bird Johnson’s poorly preserved wedding cake as a temp worker at the LBJ Library). She went on to write ten acclaimed novels and hundreds of articles, developing a signature voice that combines laser-sharp insight with irreverent, wickedly funny prose in the tradition of Molly Ivins and Nora Ephron.<br /> Now collecting forty of Bird’s best nonfiction pieces, from publications that range from <i>Texas Monthly</i> to the <i>New York Times</i> and beyond, <i>Recent Studies Indicate</i> presents some of her earliest work, including a prescient 1976 profile of a transgender woman, along with recent calls to political action, such as her 2017 speech at a benefit for Annie’s List.<br /> Whether Bird is hanging out with socialites and sanitation workers or paying homage to her army-nurse mom, her collection brings a poignant perspective to the experience of being a woman, a feminist, a mother, and a Texan—and a teller of spectacular true stories.<br /> &#160;<br /> “Delightful&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. You can open the book to just about any story and enjoy a few minutes of good reading and, more likely than not, a hearty laugh.” ―<i>Abilene Reporter-News</i><br /> &#160;<br /> “Lively, honest&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. More timely than ever.” —Cecile Richards</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-12-15 20:00:03. Advantage title. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0b6b4430-726b-4286-b10c-6edde952ee70&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0b6b4430-726b-4286-b10c-6edde952ee70&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0b6b4430-726b-4286-b10c-6edde952ee70&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) QS5