Serious face : essays /
Beneath the self-assured and serious faces we wear, every human life is full of longing, guesswork and confusion, a scramble to do the best we can and make everything up as we go along. In these wide-ranging essays, Jon Mooallem chronicles the beauty of our blundering and the inescapability of our i...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
[2022].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- A house at the end of the world
- Why these instead of others?
- This is my serious face
- Can you even believe this is happening? (A monk seal murder mystery)
- The outsiders
- At the precise center of a dream
- We have fire everywhere
- This story about Charlie Kaufman has changed
- Swing state
- Birdman
- A cloud society
- Neanderthals were people, too
- Take me out.