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"The Nerd in All of Us"
by Bev Katz Rosenbaum
FILLED WITH GLEE
Publishing details to come.
Yeah, sure, we all know the show choir at William McKinley High School is filled with nerds. But here's the thing: the popular kids at McKinley are just as messed up, lonely and marginalized as their showbiz lovin' counterparts. When Glee won a Golden Globe award for Best Musical/Comedy of 2009, show creator Ryan Murphy dedicated it to 'everyone who ever got a wedgie in high school', but my essay will prove one of the show's main points is that there's a nerd in all of us. Or in the immortal words of Finn in the show's pilot episode: 'Dontcha get it? We're all losers!'
"I Love You, I Just Don't Want to Know You (So Much)"
by Bev Katz Rosenbaum
A TASTE OF TRUE BLOOD
ISBN - 13 9781935618232
Publisher: Benbella/Smart Pop Books
Available NOW at:
Amazon.com, BN.com Chapters/Indigo and other bookstores.
My essay in this anthology about the popular television series True Blood explores how the show works as a critique of our oversharing culture. C'mon, can't you totally understand Sookie Stackhouse's attraction to the one guy whose mind she can't read (because he's, erm, dead)? Don't we all secretly want a little less chatter and 'honesty' in our lives...?
"Destiny: Disaster"
by Bev Katz Rosenbaum
PERFECTLY PLUM
ISBN: 978193377104551795
Publisher: Benbella/Smart Pop Books
Available NOW at:
Amazon.com, BN.com Chapters/Indigo and other bookstores.
In my (leadoff!) essay, "Destiny: Disaster!", the question is posed: Was Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum always destined for a life as a disaster-prone bounty hunter? Greedily mining every book in the series for delicious details about Stephanie's early life, I finally (sort of) arrive at an answer...
Read an excerpt at:
http://www.smartpopbooks.com/book/perfectly-plum!
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