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An instant New York Times bestseller, I'll Show Myself Out is the
eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein,
author of the acclaimed debut You’ll Grow Out of It. Longlisted
for the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
“Sometimes I think about how much bad news there is to tell my
kid, the endlessly long, looping CVS receipt scroll of truly
terrible things that have happened, and I want to get under the bed
and never come out. How do we tell them about all this? Can we just
play Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire and then brace for
questions? The first of which should be, how is this a song that
played on the radio?” In New York Times bestselling author and
Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Jessi Klein’s second
collection, she hilariously explodes the cultural myths and
impossible expectations around motherhood and explore the
humiliations, poignancies, and possibilities of midlife. In
interconnected essays like “Listening to Beyoncé in the Parking
Lot of Party City,” “Your Husband Will Remarry Five Minutes
After You Die,” “Eulogy for My Feet,” and “An Open Love
Letter to Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent,” Klein explores this
stage of life in all its cruel ironies, joyous moments, and
bittersweetness. Written with Klein’s signature candor and
humanity, I'll Show Myself Out is an incisive, moving, and often
uproarious collection.
Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013 Through
interviews and case studies, Klein develops an explanation for
bully behavior in America's schools In today's schools, kids
bullying kids is not an occasional occurrence but rather an
everyday reality where children learn early that being sensitive,
respectful, and kind earns them no respect. Jessie Klein makes the
provocative argument that the rise of school shootings across
America, and childhood aggression more broadly, are the
consequences of a society that actually promotes aggressive and
competitive behavior. The Bully Society is a call to reclaim
America's schools from the vicious cycle of aggression that
threatens our children and our society at large. Heartbreaking
interviews illuminate how both boys and girls obtain status by
acting "masculine"-displaying aggression at one another's expense
as both students and adults police one another to uphold gender
stereotypes. Klein shows that the aggressive ritual of gender
policing in American culture creates emotional damage that
perpetuates violence through revenge, and that this cycle is the
main cause of not only the many school shootings that have shocked
America, but also related problems in schools, manifesting in high
rates of suicide, depression, anxiety, eating disorders,
self-cutting, truancy, and substance abuse. After two decades
working in schools as a school social worker and professor, Klein
proposes ways to transcend these destructive trends-transforming
school bully societies into compassionate communities.
An instant New York Times bestseller, I'll Show Myself Out is the
eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein,
author of the acclaimed debut You'll Grow Out of It. "Sometimes I
think about how much bad news there is to tell my kid, the
endlessly long, looping CVS receipt scroll of truly terrible things
that have happened, and I want to get under the bed and never come
out. How do we tell them about all this? Can we just play Billy
Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire and then brace for questions? The
first of which should be, how is this a song that played on the
radio?" In New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning
writer and producer Jessi Klein's second collection, she
hilariously explodes the cultural myths and impossible expectations
around motherhood and explore the humiliations, poignancies, and
possibilities of midlife. In interconnected essays like "Listening
to Beyonce in the Parking Lot of Party City," "Your Husband Will
Remarry Five Minutes After You Die," "Eulogy for My Feet," and "An
Open Love Letter to Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent," Klein explores
this stage of life in all its cruel ironies, joyous moments, and
bittersweetness. Written with Klein's signature candor and
humanity, I'll Show Myself Out is an incisive, moving, and often
uproarious collection.
Many of our countryOs children face daily a threat to their
personal safety and well-being. As school boards, law enforcement
officials, and policymakers continue to look for ways to stop youth
violence in urban and suburban schools, not enough attention is
paid to eradicating the socioeconomic and cultural conditions that
give rise to these acts. In this timely and thought-provoking
collection, seasoned educators and cultural theorists emphasize
this connection between youth violence and the realities faced by
many children poverty, racism, unequal opportunity, and the mediaOs
glorification of violence.
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'Jessi Klein is a
brilliant comedic mind and this book is a perfect reflection of
that. It's like having a glass of wine with the best friend you
wish you had' -Amy Schumer As both a tomboy and a late bloomer,
comedian Jessi Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a
participant in the rites of modern femininity. In YOU'LL GROW OUT
OF IT, Klein offers-through an incisive collection of real-life
stories-a relentlessly funny yet poignant take on a variety of
topics she has experienced along her strange journey to womanhood
and beyond. These include her "transformation from Pippi
Longstocking-esque tomboy to are-you-a-lesbian-or-what tom man,"
attempting to find watchable porn, and identifying the difference
between being called 'ma'am' and 'miss' ('Miss sounds like you
weigh ninety-nine pounds'). Raw, relatable, and consistently
hilarious, YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT is a one-of-a-kind book by a
singular and irresistible comic voice.
Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013 Through
interviews and case studies, Klein develops an explanation for
bully behavior in America's schools In today’s schools, kids
bullying kids is not an occasional occurrence but rather an
everyday reality where children learn early that being sensitive,
respectful, and kind earns them no respect. Jessie Klein makes the
provocative argument that the rise of school shootings across
America, and childhood aggression more broadly, are the
consequences of a society that actually promotes aggressive and
competitive behavior. The Bully Society is a call to reclaim
America’s schools from the vicious cycle of aggression that
threatens our children and our society at large. Heartbreaking
interviews illuminate how both boys and girls obtain status by
acting “masculine”—displaying aggression at one another’s
expense as both students and adults police one another to uphold
gender stereotypes. Klein shows that the aggressive ritual of
gender policing in American culture creates emotional damage that
perpetuates violence through revenge, and that this cycle is the
main cause of not only the many school shootings that have shocked
America, but also related problems in schools, manifesting in high
rates of suicide, depression, anxiety, eating disorders,
self-cutting, truancy, and substance abuse. After two decades
working in schools as a school social worker and professor, Klein
proposes ways to transcend these destructive trends—transforming
school bully societies into compassionate communities.
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'Jessi Klein is a
brilliant comedic mind and this book is a perfect reflection of
that. It's like having a glass of wine with the best friend you
wish you had' - Amy Schumer 'Miranda July meets Tina Fey' The Pool
As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Jessi Klein grew up
feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of
modern femininity. In YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT, Klein offers-through
an incisive collection of real-life stories-a relentlessly funny
yet poignant take on a variety of topics she has experienced along
her strange journey to womanhood and beyond. These include her
"transformation from Pippi Longstocking-esque tomboy to
are-you-a-lesbian-or-what tom man," attempting to find watchable
porn, and identifying the difference between being called 'ma'am'
and 'miss' ('Miss sounds like you weigh ninety-nine pounds'). Raw,
relatable, and consistently hilarious, YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT is a
one-of-a-kind book by a singular and irresistible comic voice.
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