Research Catalog

Title

Mortified : real words. real people. real pathetic. / David Nadelberg ; associate editors, Neil Katcher ... [et al.].

Publication

New York : Simon Spotlight Entertainment, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Nadelberg, David.
• Katcher, Neil.

Description

xv, 399 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"In the days before blogs, teenagers recorded their lives with a pen in top-secret notebooks, usually emblazoned with an earnest, underlined plea to parents to keep away. Since 2002, David Nadelberg has tapped that vast wellspring of adolescent anguish in the stage show Mortified, in which grown men and women confront their past with firsthand tales of their first kiss, first puff, worst prom, fights with mom, life at bible camp, worst hand job, best mall job, and reasons they deserved to marry Simon LeBon." -- back cover.

Subjects

• Literary collections
• Anxiety > Literary collections
• Adolescence > Literary collections
• American wit and humor
• Teenagers' writings, American

Genre/Form

Literary collections

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Rewriting romance / Alexa Alemanni -- London calling / Carolyn Waddle Almos -- Passing notes / Anne Altman -- Bad advice / Anonymous -- Brandy vs. the world / Brandy Barber -- The porn / Sara Barron -- The Chanel memos / Cheryl Calegari -- Don't feed the fat kid / Qraig de Groot -- Pioneer prayers / Hayley Downs -- The invisible Maggie Fine / Maggie Fine -- The Cotton Club / Lori Fowler -- I have a dream / Jon Friedman -- Pumpmaster and Smooth Boyz / Jake Goldman -- The Rodeo Drive diet / Lori Gottlieb -- Message from the margins (pt. 1) / Stacey Grenrock Woods -- Duran Duran fan fiction / Jillian Griffiths -- The missionary position / Kirsten Gronfield -- Letter to my future self / Kirsten Gronfield -- Unhappy camper / Adam Gropman -- Message from the margins (pt. 2) / Abby Gross -- In like / Mathew Harawitz -- The grass is always Seth Greener / Brianna Jacobson -- Dawn of the boy-girl party / Sharone Jelden -- Cheap Jew / Sharone Jelden -- Gotta have a (boy) friend named Jesus / Anne Jensen -- Taxicab confessional / Blaise K -- Problem child / Neil Katcher -- an Olympic-size love / Christina Kerby -- Horace hears a ho / Jennifer Kirmse -- The challenger song / Krista & Keleigh Kanphear -- Stalking Mandy Moskovitz / Scott Lifton -- Bully pulpit / Gabriel Lopez -- Twisted sister / Jennifer McDonnell -- My first / Rylan Morrison -- Blockhead / Vanessa Murdock -- Unsent love letter / David Nadelberg -- I hate Drake / Will Nolan -- Fight the power / Niya Palmer -- Mark interrupted / Mark Phinney -- Geek triumphant / Retta -- Camp letters / Sascha Rothchild -- Miami vices / Sascha Rothchild -- Guido love / Giulia Rozzi -- The unholy land / Jami Rudofsky -- Dear Mr. Belvedere / Stephen Scaia -- The young (& the restless) Republican / Ari Scott -- Courting Catholic guilt / Victoria Scroggins -- The guiding Liza / Wiliam Seymour -- Wackies / Michael Stern -- Jesus, John, and Hurricane Gloria / Maria Victoria Suozzo -- Law of the land / Law Tarello.

ISBN

• 1416928073
• 9781416928072

LCCN

• ^^2006013054
• 9781416928072

OCLC

• 68373156
• SCSB-11166456

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library