Snidelines: Talking Trash to Power

by Susie Day, Maria Pia Marrella (Illustrator), Susie Day

Poppin' Fresh declares martial law-Che Guevara loses his good looks and throws the entire U.S. Left into disarray-Zombie terrorist anchor babies invade the Pentagon. You'll read all this and more in Snidelines: Talking Trash to Power, a startling collection of personal essays and political satire that offers a perverse moral clarity to an increasingly amoral world. Ace reporter Susie Day brings us fast-breaking faux news; pens heartrendingly squalid lesbian grand opera; and dispenses an array of helpful hints, from how to avoid indefinite detention at Guantanamo, to what to do if you happen to fall in love with a political prisoner. Taking on a combustible mash-up of horrors brought to us by our ever-watchful-corporate-feel-good-war-mongering benefactors, Snidelines is an existentialist survival manual that actually makes it fun to fear the unknown.

Genres: Nonfiction, LGBT

160 pages, Paperback

First published November 6, 2014

Reviews

[Maggie Kazel]

There is so little to make me laugh these days, about the state of our culture, our politics. The title of this marvelous work is demure compared to what's inside: it is over the top, frank and funny relief that will keep you going, and will be there when you need buoying up down the road. The author's renderings of diehard beliefs offer excellent ideas to ponder in addition to the humor. More! More!