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02581aam a2200361 i 4500 001 2254D7E60C3711EF907AC7B83FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240507010037 008 231228s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1635577942 020 $a 9781635577945 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Mak, Geoffrey, $e author. 245 1 $a Mean boys : $b a personal history / $c Geoffrey Mak. 264 1 $a New York : $b Bloomsbury Publishing, $c 2024. 300 $a 264 pages ; $c 21 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a For readers of Monsters and Gay Bar, a ferocious inquiry into art and desire, style and politics, madness and salvation, and coming of age in our volatile, image-obsessed present. 520 $a "You know them when you see them: mean boys take up space, wielding cruelty to claim their place in the pecking order. Some mean boys make art or music or fashion; others make memes. Mean boys stomp the runways in Milan and Paris; mean boys marched at Charlottesville. And in the eyes of critic and style expert Geoffrey Mak, mean boys are the emblem of our society: an era ravenous for novelty, always thirsting for the next edgy thing, even at our peril. ... Mak ranges widely over our landscape of paranoia, crisis, and frenetic, clickable consumption. He grants readers an inside pass to the spaces where culture was made and unmade over the past decade, from the antiseptic glare of white-walled galleries to the darkest corners of Berlin techno clubs. As the gay son of an evangelical minister, Mak fled to those spaces, hoping to join a global, influential elite. But when calamity struck, it forced [him] to confront the costs of mistaking status for belonging. Fusing personal essay and cultural critique, Mean Boys investigates exile and return, transgression and forgiveness, and the value of faith, empathy, and friendship in a world designed to make us want what is bad for us"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20240429. 600 1 $a Mak, Geoffrey. 650 $a Gay men $z United States $v Biography. 650 $a Chinese Americans $v Biography. 650 $a Americans $z Berlin $z Berlin $v Biography. 650 $a Belonging (Social psychology.) 650 7 $a Social media and society. $2 fast 650 $a Fashion $x Social aspects. 651 $a Berlin (Germany) $v Biography. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 fast 941 $a 2 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240524010555.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20240507010359.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2254D7E60C3711EF907AC7B83FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search