Title:
Naked in the rideshare : (stories of gross miscalculations)
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2023
Publication Information:
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
©2023
Physical Description:
viii, 279 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780063215788
Abstract:
"Showing off their trademark humor and writing chops that have made them a viral sensation, Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold provide a collection of startlingly funny short stories that will keep readers laughing. Naked in the Rideshare is a riotous collection of comedic short stories, bursting with the safe spaces, shrooms dealers, and Notes app apologies that define growing up right now. The essays take a drunken cannonball into this generation's hopes and anxieties. A camp color war ends in ritual sacrifice. A twenty-something enters a sexual relationship with his childhood fairy god milf. A summit outside of space and time brings together a teen's selves from ages 1 to 81. Irreverent, disturbing, and surprisingly rife with hope, Naked in the Rideshare aims to shine a light on the generation we can't stop talking about--and all the ways we get them so wrong." -- publisher's description.
General Note:
Essays and short stories.
Contents:
Introduction. We'd kill each other -- We have your son -- Eustace, 1 through 84 -- Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day that was made better by White privilege -- Report cards for 25-year-olds -- Letters from the color war -- Dr. Seuss teaches sex ed -- See you in hell -- The collected works of angsty suburban White kids named Corey -- Yikies! -- Caesar's relieved -- College stories fact check -- Butterscotch Galaxy, (or, The spectaular class of 54) -- I am outraged -- How to assemble your first couch, you big fucking loser -- My college friend the pope -- Fun guy -- How to get into the club -- It happened to me : my goop jade vaginal egg hatched into a tiny White woman who I now have to care for as my own -- The incident at Aces Bar -- Fairy god milf -- Sex and love in the alien invasion -- Clarity -- The Reynolds Accords -- Soulmates -- Actual things Ben's mother has told her friends he does for a living -- Sky not found -- Unchosen -- Bits & pieces -- Our musings on comedy (vs. what we pitched) -- Welcome to the Buzzfeed orgy -- Easter eggs -- How'd we do?
Language:
English
