Comedian Shawn Hitchins explores his irreverent nature in this debut collection of essays. Hitchins doesn't shy away from his failures or celebrate his mild successes--he sacrifices them for an audience's amusement. He roasts his younger self, the effeminate ginger-haired kid with a competitive streak. The ups and downs of being a sperm donor to a lesbian couple. Then the fiery redhead professes his love for actress Shelley Long, declares his hatred of musical theatre, and recounts a summer spent in Provincetown working as a drag queen. Nothing is sacred. His first major break-up, how his mother plotted the murder of the family cat, his difficult relationship with his father, becoming an unintentional spokesperson for all redheads, and many more. Blunt, awkward, emotional, ribald, this anthology of humiliation culminates in a greater understanding of love, work, and family. Like the final scene in a Murder She Wrote episode, A Brief History of Oversharing promises everyone the A-ha! moment Oprah tells us to experience. Paired with bourbon, Scottish wool, and Humpty Dumpty Party Mix, this journey is best read through a lens of schadenfreude.--$cProvided by publisher.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2017.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 792.702/8092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9781770413269 9781773050584
- LCCN
- PN2308.H59
- LCCN Item number
- A3 2017eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (213 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00238053 (OCoLC)985966403 (CaOOCEL)453494
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Table of Contents 7
- WILL THERE BE SHADE? 9
- DENIAL IN EGYPT 15
- STIFF COMPETITION 25
- VOTED MOST LIKELY TO BE STERILIZED 36
- I REMEMBER APPLE PIE 42
- MY THEME SONG 44
- DAD JOKES 45
- MS HITCHINS 52
- FAILURE 66
- WHAT WOULD LIZA DO? 69
- THE VISIBLE HORIZON 75
- ALL HAIL THE RED ORANGE AND PALE! 89
- POST-THEATRICAL STRESS DISORDER 103
- I HATE MUSICALS 114
- SWEATER ASSHOLES 120
- FUCK’ EM 125
- FK / LW 136
- SUMMA CUM LAUDE 142
- THERE’S NO U IN THE WORD ME 160
- I AM JONI MITCHELL 163
- DON’T CALL ME MA’AM 178
- HOLY CATRIMONY 182
- RIDDLE ME THIS 193
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF OVERSHARING 197
- I HEAR CATHERINE ZETA-JONES IS AVAILABLE 205
- Acknowledgments 210
- About the Author 212
- Back Cover 214
