Something That May Shock and Discredit You
Edition: Unabridged Audiobook
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Format: Audiobook
Copyright date: 2020
Description: Daniel M. Lavery is known for blending genres, forms, and sources to develop fascinating new hybrids—from lyric rants to horror recipes to pornographic scripture. In his most personal work to date, he turns his attention to the essay, offering vigorous and laugh-out-loud funny accounts of both popular and highbrow culture while mixing in meditations on gender transition, family dynamics, and the many meanings of faith.

From a thoughtful analysis of the beauty of William Shatner to a sinister reimagining of HGTV’s House Hunters, and featuring figures as varied as Anne of Green Gables, Columbo, Nora Ephron, Apollo, and the cast of Mean Girls, Something That May Shock and Discredit You is a hilarious and emotionally exhilarating compendium that combines personal history with cultural history to make you see yourself and those around you entirely anew. It further establishes Lavery as one of the most innovative and engaging voices of his generation—and it may just change the way you think about Lord Byron forever.
Table of contents: label: Chapter 1
title: When You Were Younger and You Got Home Early and You Were the First One Home and No One Else Was Out on the Street, Did You Ever Worry That the Rapture Had Happened without You? I Did.; label: Interlude I
title: Chapter Titles from the on the Nose, Po-Faced Trans-Masculine Memoir I Am Trying Not to Write; label: Chapter 2
title: My Brothers, My Brothers, My Brothers’ Keepers, My Brothers, My Brothers, My Brothers and Me; label: Interlude II
title: Help Me, Brother, or I Sink; label: Chapter 3
title: Apollo and Hyacinthus Die Playing Ultimate Frisbee, and I Died Watching Teenage Boys Play Video Games; label: Interlude III
title: Lord Byron Has a Birthday and Takes His Leave; label: Chapter 4
title: Reasons for Transitioning, in Order; label: Interlude IV
title: If You Can’t Parallel Park, You Have to Get a Sex Change; label: Chapter 5
title: Unwanted Coming-Out Disorder; label: Chapter 6
title: The Stages of Not Going on T; label: Interlude V
title: Oh Lacanian Philosopher We Love You Get Up; label: Chapter 7
title: The Several Mortes D’Arthur; label: Interlude VI
title: Cosmopolitan Magazine Cover Stories for Bewildered Future Trans Men Living in the Greater Chicago Area Between the Years 1994-2002; label: Interlude VII
title: Marcus Aurelius Prepares for the New Year; label: Chapter 8
title: Evelyn Waugh and the Opposite of Communion; label: Interlude VIII
title: Jacob and the Angel Wrasslin’ Till Noon at Least; label: Chapter 9
title: Mary and Martha and Jesus and the Dishes; label: Interlude IX
title: Columbo in Six Positions; label: Interlude X; label: Chapter 10
title: The Golden Girls and the Mountains in the Sea; label: Chapter 11
title: Captain James T. Kirk Is a Beautiful Lesbian, and I’m Not Sure Exactly How to Explain That; label: Interlude XI
title: Rilke Takes a Turn; label: Chapter 12
title: Duckie from Pretty in Pink Is Also a Beautiful Lesbian and I Can Prove It with the Intensity of My Feelings; label: Interlude XII
title: I Have a Friend Who Thinks Umbrellas Are Enemies of the Collective Good, and I Have a Sneaking Suspicion They May Be Right; label: Chapter 13
title: Sir Gawain Just Wants to Leave Castle Make-Out; label: Interlude XIII
title: No One Understands Henry VIII Like I Do; label: Chapter 14
title: “I Love Your Vibe,” and Other Things I’ve Said to Men; label: Interludex IV
title: House Hunters; label: Chapter 15
title: And His Name Shall Be Called Something Hard to Remember; label: Chapter 16
title: Pirates at the Funeral: “It Feels Like Someone Died,” but Someone Actually Didn’t; label: Interlude XV
title: Nora Ephron’s I Feel Bad About My Neck, Transmasculine Edition; label: Chapter 17
title: Powerful T4T Energy in Steve Martin’s The Jerk; label: Interlude XVI
title: Did You Know That Athena Used to Be a Tomboy?; label: Chapter 18
title: It’s Hard to Feel Sad Reading Hans Christian Andersen Because It’s Just Another Story About a Bummed-Out Candlestick That Loves a Broom and Dies; label: Interlude XVII
title: Dirtbag Sappho; label: Chapter 19
title: Dante Runs into Beatrice in Paradise; label: Interlude XVIII
title: How I Intend to Comport Myself When I Have Abs Someday; label: Chapter 20
title: Paul and Second Timothy: The Transmasculine Epistles; label: Interlude XIX
title: Something Nice Happens to Oedipus; label: Chapter 21
title: Destry Rides Again, or Jimmy Stewart Has a Body and So Do I; label: Interlude XX
title: The Matriarchs of Avonlea Begrudgingly Accept Your Transition / Men of Anne of Green Gables Experience; label: Chapter 22
title: The Opposite of Baptism