Impossible owls: essays
β 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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β¦ 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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