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Impossible owls: essays

✍ Scribed by Brian Phillips


Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux;FSG Originals
Year
2018
Tongue
en-US
Weight
220 KB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis


NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER


One of Buzzfeed 's Best Books of Fall 2018, one of the Best Books of October by TIME, The Millions, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and one of ELLE 's Best Books of 2018


"Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating." --Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad


A globe-spanning, ambitious book of essays from one of the most enthralling storytellers in narrative nonfiction

In his highly anticipated debut essay collection, Impossible Owls , Brian Phillips demonstrates why he's one of the most iconoclastic journalists of the digital age, beloved for his ambitious, off-kilter, meticulously reported essays that read like novels.

The eight essays assembled here--five from Phillips's Grantland and MTV days, and three new pieces--go beyond simply chronicling some of the modern world's most uncanny,...


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