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Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays (originale 2020; edizione 2020)

di R. Eric Thomas (Autore)

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Biography & Autobiography. Essays. Nonfiction. Humor (Nonfiction.) HTML: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 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 brightl
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Titolo:Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays
Autori:R. Eric Thomas (Autore)
Info:Ballantine Books (2020), 288 pages
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I laughed out loud many times listening to this audiobook. I'm not sure if R. Eric Thomas would cringe at this comparison, but he was giving me Titus Andromedon vibes and I liked it. ( )
  LibrarianDest | Jan 3, 2024 |
Here for It is a collection of essays by writer R. Eric Thomas. Most of them are about his struggle with finding his true identity. He’s Black but he went to an all-white private school. When around a lot of Black people, like at church, or later at college, he never felt like he was Black enough. He’s also gay but didn’t let himself acknowledge that for a long time. Even when having a relationship with a man in college, it was hard for him to accept that he was gay.

Being gay also put him in conflict with his Christianity. He grew up in a Black Baptist church where being gay was so taboo it wasn’t even talked about. There was no need because no one in the congregation would ever be gay.

Even though those sound like heavy topics, this book is mostly hilarious. I’ve actually read it twice. I rarely reread so that’s saying something. The first time I read it in print and it was funny. The next time, I listened to it on audiobook and it was next level. People at the gym probably thought I was a weirdo seeing me laughing to myself while on the treadmill. His voice and comedic timing are perfect.

Highly recommended. ( )
  mcelhra | Jul 30, 2023 |
Listened as an audiobook, which was the right format for this one! ( )
  CarolHicksCase | Mar 12, 2023 |
This was a fun memoir/collection of essays. If nothing else it was fun to listen to on the way to and from work! ( )
  Rekki | Mar 10, 2023 |
DNF stopped at page 210 and skimmed the rest. I enjoyed the first 150 pages of the book but then it started slogging around the Kanye essay. I enjoyed the essays when he talked about his upbringing and his meaningful life experiences but jeeze the hair story that didnt go anywhere, the blanket story, kanye (r/im14andthisisdeep), the easter egg story, his cheese and wine friend, his Elle or internet stories (didnt know him prior and I dont read elle) were super uninteresting and frankly a waste of my time.

Also, these are one of those books where I see 5 star reviews and I call bs ( )
  Bandit_ | Jan 15, 2022 |
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If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy,
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—MARY OLIVER, "DON'T HESITATE"
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For my parents, Bob and Judi Thomas,

and their parents, Clara and Adelita and Walter and Columbus.

For everyone further on down the line and everyone yet to come.
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For a number of years, I was under the impression that my birth was the result of an immaculate conception.
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I suddenly encountered—my blackness or my gayness or my Christianness or my Americanness and their intersections—would somehow get uncomplicated through the magic of time, like a movie montage.
Spoiler alert: they did not.
Though I do have a constant hum of low-level anxiety about organizing my time, and producing a punchline, and keeping this gig, I still feel like I should be struggling more. Remember how Carrie Bradshaw got drunk at lunch every day and stayed out till four in the morning on dates, and wrote just one weekly column but was still on the side of a bus? I'm not on a bus and I write every day, but I couldn't help but wonder if I've put enough effort in to deserve this.
But after nearly four decades on this planet and a long, nightmarish conversation about "economic anxiety" and the "forgotten working class," I am willing to entertain the idea that there are many kinds of poverty, that your mortgage can be paid on time and your children can be fed and you can still live in Poor America.
In the present, my parents will drop details about how things used to be for them with a casualness that beliew how stunning those facts are. They shared a car for many years, so my father sometimes walked for miles to get home; he worked three jobs to afford school for me and my brothers, including a paper route in the wee small hours of the morning. My mother worked tirelessly to build a nurturing and educationally vigorous home for a decade and then went back to teaching elementary school, while putting herself through grad school and taking care of her ailing parents. And, for a ten-year stretch, they didn't buy themselves clothing.
At the public school, one of my classmates bit me on the hand in protest for having to share computer time with me, and my mother rolled up on that place like a flash flood to whisk me and my lightly bleeding hand out of there.
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Biography & Autobiography. Essays. Nonfiction. Humor (Nonfiction.) HTML: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 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 brightl

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