Moranthology
The follow up to her bestselling breakout hit How to Be a Woman, Moranthology is a hilarious, insightful collection of Moran’s London Times columns that confirms her status as “the UK’s answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one.” (Marie Claire)

Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling How to Be a Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman. Moranthology is proof that Caitlin can actually be “quite chatty” about many other things, including cultural, social and political issues that are usually the province of learned professors, or hot-shot wonks—and not of a woman who once, as an experiment, put a wasp in a jar, and got it stoned.

Here you’ll find Caitlin ruminating on—and sometimes interviewing—subjects as varied as caffeine, Keith Richards, Ghostbusters, Twitter, the welfare state, the royal wedding, Lady Gaga, and her own mortality, to name just a few. With her “brilliant, original voice” (Publishers Weekly), Caitlin brings insight and humor to everything she writes.

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Moranthology
The follow up to her bestselling breakout hit How to Be a Woman, Moranthology is a hilarious, insightful collection of Moran’s London Times columns that confirms her status as “the UK’s answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one.” (Marie Claire)

Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling How to Be a Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman. Moranthology is proof that Caitlin can actually be “quite chatty” about many other things, including cultural, social and political issues that are usually the province of learned professors, or hot-shot wonks—and not of a woman who once, as an experiment, put a wasp in a jar, and got it stoned.

Here you’ll find Caitlin ruminating on—and sometimes interviewing—subjects as varied as caffeine, Keith Richards, Ghostbusters, Twitter, the welfare state, the royal wedding, Lady Gaga, and her own mortality, to name just a few. With her “brilliant, original voice” (Publishers Weekly), Caitlin brings insight and humor to everything she writes.

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Overview

The follow up to her bestselling breakout hit How to Be a Woman, Moranthology is a hilarious, insightful collection of Moran’s London Times columns that confirms her status as “the UK’s answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one.” (Marie Claire)

Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling How to Be a Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman. Moranthology is proof that Caitlin can actually be “quite chatty” about many other things, including cultural, social and political issues that are usually the province of learned professors, or hot-shot wonks—and not of a woman who once, as an experiment, put a wasp in a jar, and got it stoned.

Here you’ll find Caitlin ruminating on—and sometimes interviewing—subjects as varied as caffeine, Keith Richards, Ghostbusters, Twitter, the welfare state, the royal wedding, Lady Gaga, and her own mortality, to name just a few. With her “brilliant, original voice” (Publishers Weekly), Caitlin brings insight and humor to everything she writes.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062258526
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 11/06/2012
Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 765 KB

About the Author

Caitlin Moran’s debut book, How to Be a Woman, was an instant New York Times bestseller, with more than one million copies distributed worldwide. Her first novel, How to Build a Girl, received widespread acclaim, and she adapted it into a major motion picture starring Beanie Feldstein and Emma Thompson. As a twice-weekly columnist at The Times of London, Moran has won the British Society of Magazine Editors "Columnist of the Year" Award eight times. She lives in London.

Table of Contents

Introduction-or: I Try To Be Good 1

Part 1

Call Me Puffin 17

Caffeine-Lifeblood of the Twenty-first Century 20

Celebrity Watch Special: Michael Jackson's Memorial 23

I Am Caitlin Moran, and I Was a Skunk Addict 30

I Am Late to Interview the Prime Minister 34

What I Learned up a Mountain This Summer 37

I Am a Dwarf Called "Scottbaio" 41

I Do a Lot for Charity, but I Would Never Mention It 47

Ghostbusters Is the Greatest Film of All Time. Please Do Not Argue with Me. 50

Keith-Noddy Holder Says You Wear a Wig 54

Sherlock Review 1: Like a Jaguar in a Cello 69

Sherlock Review 2: The Frumious Cumberbatch 72

Hello. You Look Wonderful. 76

Part 2

First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 81

The Gay Moon Landings 84

We Only Had Two Transsexuals in Wolverhampton 87

Come Party With Gaga 90

MTV Hoes 106

Burqas: Are the Men Doing It? 109

This Cape Makes Me Look Like Wizbit 112

We Need Quotas, Ladies. Or We Will Be Lonely Pelicans. 115

I Would Like Some Chivalry, Please, Dude 118

Don't Feed the Troll 122

On the Set of Doctor Who 125

This is Not a Gift 134

Part 3

All the Ways I've Ruined Your Life 139

I Refuse to Make You Goody Bags. Leave Before I Summon a Policeman. 142

I Hate Charlie and Lola 145

The Horror of Daddy's Special Lemonade 148

In Defense of Binge Drinking 151

Aberystwyth: The Only Place I Stop Wanting 154

Libraries: Cathedrals of Our Souls 159

Unlike Most of the Coalition, I Was Raised on Benefits 162

I Know What It's Like to be Poor. They Took Away the TV, and We Cried. 165

I Love a Protestor. You Don't Need Answers-Just Questions. 168

Downton Abbey Review 1: Lady Mary's Haunted Vagina 171

Downton Abbey Review 2: "SEX WILL BE HAD! SEX WILL BE HAD!" 176

Summer Is an Emergency 180

Time Travel in the Same Four Places 183

Part 4

My French Dress 189

Sherlock Review 3: As Good as Television Gets 192

I Wish to Copyright My Hair 196

Chicks with Big Hair Are My Chicks 199

The Best Royal Wedding Ever 202

My Day with Paul McCartney. From the Beatles. 213

Celebrity Weight-Loss: The Truth 224

Elizabeth Taylor: Heavy, Like Wet Roses 227

Winehouse-Jump on Your Voice, Like a Lion, and Run Away 229

My Tragically Early Death 232

Acknowledgments 235

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