Here for It
Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays
(Sprache: Englisch)
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today From the creator of Elle s Eric Reads the News, a heartfelt and hilarious memoir-in-essays about growing up seeing the world differently, finding unexpected hope, and experiencing every awkward, extraordinary stumble along the way.Pop culture obsessed, Sedaris-level laugh-out-loud funny . . . [R. Eric Thomas] is one of my favorite writers. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Entertainment Weekly
FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TEEN VOGUE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O: The Oprah Magazine NPR Marie Claire Men s Health
R. Eric Thomas didn t know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburban high school, his conservative black church, or his Ivy League college in a big city he found himself on the outside looking in.
In essays by turns hysterical and heartfelt, Thomas reexamines what it means to be an other through the lens of his own life experience. He explores the two worlds of his childhood: the barren urban landscape where his parents house was an anomalous bright spot, and the Eden-like school they sent him to in white suburbia. He writes about struggling to reconcile his Christian identity with his sexuality, the exhaustion of code-switching in college, accidentally getting famous on the internet (for the wrong reason), and the surreal experience of covering the 2016 election for Elle online, and the seismic changes that came thereafter. Ultimately, Thomas seeks the answer to these ever more relevant questions: Is the future worth it? Why do we bother when everything seems to be getting worse? As the world continues to shift in unpredictable ways, Thomas finds the answers to these questions by reenvisioning what normal means and in the powerful alchemy that occurs when you at last place yourself at the center
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of your own story.
Here for It will resonate deeply and joyfully with everyone who has ever felt pushed to the margins, struggled with self-acceptance, or wished to shine more brightly in a dark world. Stay here for it the future may surprise you.
Here for It will resonate deeply and joyfully with everyone who has ever felt pushed to the margins, struggled with self-acceptance, or wished to shine more brightly in a dark world. Stay here for it the future may surprise you.
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Chapter 1The Audacity
I am awake because everything is hilarious. And also terrifying. And also embarrassing.
Don t pick up the phone, I tell myself as I lie in bed on the first night of the Democratic National Convention, 2016. Go to sleep, my brain hisses, as I slip my hand out from beneath the sheet and unlock my phone. I open the Notes app and my bedroom is suddenly illuminated by garish, gray-blue light, like I m in a reboot of Poltergeist. Well, I think to myself, it s not like I have a choice now. I hitch myself up in bed and start to type. There is a joke emergency.
I don t realize it at the time, but I am entering a season of sleepless nights. It s the middle of July and I am three weeks into my new job as a person who contributes to this great democracy by making fun of politics online for money. It s immensely enjoyable but it does have the strange side effect of forcing me to know more about what s happening in the world, particularly in the political world, and as I said, that s hilarious and terrifying and deeply embarrassing. So, perfect for the internet. I ve never been a particularly internet-y person. I like a good meme like the rest of the youths, but I m never on the cutting edge of internet culture. Though I ve had a couple of lackluster blogs, I ve never been a blogger. I read television recaps on the legendary site Television Without Pity for years but never commented or engaged in any meaningful way beyond wishing that they d miraculously email me and ask me to join the team. I must admit I know what Tumblr is but every time I think I know how to search for something on it I am proven wrong. I am a consumer on the internet, a regular, a normal. And, suddenly, recently, a viral creator. Clearly, the internet is broken.
Four weeks earlier, I d come across a photo of President Obama, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, and Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto grinning as they strode down a red-carpeted walkway in bespoke
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suits. I was immediately deeply shewk. So I told the internet about it. I fired up my aging computer, posted the shot on Facebook, and wrote, Whoever took this photo deserves a GD Pulitzer Prize. We may be two minutes from doomsday but thank the Lord we still live in a universe where three world leaders can strut into a room like they re the new interracial male cast of Sex and the City. Like I have ALREADY pre-purchased tickets to this film. Out here in these streets looking like Career Day Ken. Looking like Destiny s DILF. Looking like the Alternate Universe version of our Current Political Universe. Looking like Tom Ford presents The Avengers. It went on like that for a while. As I said, I was deeply shewk.
At this time, I had about 1,500 Facebook friends, almost exclusively people I d actually met. I had, on occasion, posted something funny online that friends shared with their friends who shared with their friends, eventually giving whatever I d written a temporary social lift. That s how the internet works, and the first time it happened on Facebook when my blog post about how expensive Beyoncé concert tickets were got 100,000 page views I thought I was famous. The internet will quickly remind you that you are not famous; you just did this one thing this one time and that was yesterday so why are we still talking about it?
The world leaders photo was different, though. My crazed-thirst rant about the president and his hot friends zigzagged across the internet with a speed that shocked me. It was liked 77,000 times, generated almost 6,000 comments (some of them not terrible!), and was shared 17,000 times. The great aggregation machine of the internet whirred to life and articles started popping up with headlines like Internet User Has Hilarious Reaction to Obama Photo.&rdqu
At this time, I had about 1,500 Facebook friends, almost exclusively people I d actually met. I had, on occasion, posted something funny online that friends shared with their friends who shared with their friends, eventually giving whatever I d written a temporary social lift. That s how the internet works, and the first time it happened on Facebook when my blog post about how expensive Beyoncé concert tickets were got 100,000 page views I thought I was famous. The internet will quickly remind you that you are not famous; you just did this one thing this one time and that was yesterday so why are we still talking about it?
The world leaders photo was different, though. My crazed-thirst rant about the president and his hot friends zigzagged across the internet with a speed that shocked me. It was liked 77,000 times, generated almost 6,000 comments (some of them not terrible!), and was shared 17,000 times. The great aggregation machine of the internet whirred to life and articles started popping up with headlines like Internet User Has Hilarious Reaction to Obama Photo.&rdqu
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Autoren-Porträt von R. Eric Thomas
R. Eric Thomas is the bestselling author of Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and the YA novel Kings of B'more, a Stonewall Honor book. Both books were also featured as Read with Jenna book-club picks on Today. He is also a television writer (Apple TV+ s Dickinson, FX s Better Things), a Lambda Literary Award-winning playwright, and the long-running host of The Moth in Philadelphia. For four years, he was a senior staff writer at ELLE online, where he wrote the popular Eric Reads the News column.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: R. Eric Thomas
- 2021, 304 Seiten, Maße: 13,1 x 20,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Ballantine Books
- ISBN-10: 0525621059
- ISBN-13: 9780525621058
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.09.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
If you re yearning for that laugh-out-loud on the subway, damn-I-left-my-book-at-home kind of read, look no further than R. Eric Thomas s Here for It. InStyle A quirky, funny, and deep meditation on being black and queer in America. Interview
This book was a lovely gift of hope and hysterical wit that kept me warm during the apocalypse. I laughed. I cried. I wish I would have written it myself. Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of You Are Here and Furiously Happy
Here for It is Thomas at his finest: funny, clever, thoughtful, and compelling. I m glad the world will not only get to experience more of Thomas s talent, but another much-needed story from another gay Black man in America. Michael Arceneaux, New York Times bestselling author of I Can t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé
A laugh-out-loud memoir that is strongly recommended for everyone. Library Journal (starred review)
With humor, candor, and some self-deprecation, Thomas, a playwright and Elle columnist, delivers a debut essay collection that explores his search for self, love, and stable employment. . . . Whether dealing with love, breakups, or other setbacks, Thomas is an affable narrator with a penchant for pop culture, funny quips, and charming humility. Publishers Weekly
Every book says on the jacket that it is a razor-sharp tour de force, but this one actually is a razor-sharp tour de force, with an enormous heart to boot. Please give yourself the gift of reading this book. Alexandra Petri, Washington Post columnist
Here For It is a blockbuster and R. Eric Thomas is a visionary. This collection moved me from laughter to tears and back to laughter again in the span of a single page. Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things
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laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving, intensely personal and impeccably of-the-moment, Here for It is exactly what we need in 2020. No one writes quite like R. Eric Thomas, and his memoir proves it. David Litt, New York Times bestselling author of Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years
Hilarious, revelatory, hopeful, incisive Here for It feels like splitting dessert with your funniest friend, if that friend was also your smartest professor and a devastatingly sharp pop culture historian. Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue
If I were stocking a time capsule to show future generations how it felt to be alive at this exact moment in American culture, this is the book I d toss in first. Readers of all stripes will relate to Thomas s hilarious, touching observations on love, success, and identity. Mary Laura Philpott, author of I Miss You When I Blink
Hilarious, revelatory, hopeful, incisive Here for It feels like splitting dessert with your funniest friend, if that friend was also your smartest professor and a devastatingly sharp pop culture historian. Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue
If I were stocking a time capsule to show future generations how it felt to be alive at this exact moment in American culture, this is the book I d toss in first. Readers of all stripes will relate to Thomas s hilarious, touching observations on love, success, and identity. Mary Laura Philpott, author of I Miss You When I Blink
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