- Humor, form, essays, New York Times reviewed, Popular culture, Humor
"Daniel Mallory Ortberg is known for blending genres, forms, and sources to develop fascinating new hybrids--from lyric rants to horror recipes to pornographic scripture.
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Character-led, spare, comic and contemporary.
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- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Daniel Mallory Ortberg
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 247
- Publisher
- Scribe UK, Atria Books, Atria
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781982105211
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