This Is Running for Your Life: Essays

Orange, Michelle

ISBN 10: 0374533326 / ISBN 13: 9780374533328

Published by FSG Originals (edition ), 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: This Is Running for Your Life: Essays
• Publisher: FSG Originals (edition )
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374533326
• ISBN 13: 9780374533328
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

Michelle Orange uses the lens of pop culture to decode the defining characteristics of our media-drenched times


In This Is Running for Your Life, Michelle Orange takes us from Beirut to Hawaii to her grandmother's retirement home in Canada in her quest to understand how people behave in a world increasingly mediated―for better and for worse―by images and interactivity. Orange's essays range from the critical to the journalistic to the deeply personal; she seamlessly combines stories from her own life with incisive analysis as she explores everything from the intimacies we develop with celebrities and movie characters to the troubled creation of the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
With the insight of a young Joan Didion and the empathy of a John Jeremiah Sullivan, Orange dives into popular culture and the status quo and emerges with a persuasive and provocative book about how we live now. Her singular voice will resonate for years to come.

About the Author

Michelle Orange is the author of the essay collection This Is Running for Your Life, named a best book of 2013 by The New Yorker. Her writing has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, Bookforum, McSweeney’s, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, where she is a contributing editor. She teaches in the graduate writing programs at Goucher College and Columbia University.