How to become a scandal
Subtitle: adventures in bad behavior
By: Laura Kipnis
Edition: 1st Picador ed.
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780312610579
Subjects: Deviant behavior; Conduct of life; Celebrities; Scandals
Description: Delivering virtuoso analyses of four paradigmatic cases, Laura Kipnis examines contemporary downfall sagas to lay bare the American psyche: what we desire, what we punish, and what we disavow.
Notes: "With a new preface"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-206).
Table of contents: title: The lovelorn astronaut; title: An unreasonable judge; title: The whistle-blower; title: An over-imaginative writer.