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MASSIVE SWELLING

CELEBRITY RE-EXAMINED AS

A GROTESQUE, CRIPPLING DISEASE

AND OTHER CULTURAL REVELATIONS

Cintra Wilson

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ISBN-13: 978-0-9905-7432-3

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Praise for A Massive Swelling

“In writing about fame in these United States, Cintra Wilson is incisive, inflammatory, offensive, astute, vulgar, mean, wildly funny, compassionate, and sweeping. Her dull moments are few.” – The Boston Globe

“A Massive Swelling is a you-tell-it-girl delight, one of those books that ought to be read by a lot of people, and not just those who appreciate informed rant, crackling prose and hilarious, adjective-rippling commentary… a proactive, Pop-Rocks-for-the-brain book.” – The San Diego Union-Tribune

“You don’t have to be a particularly deep thinker to come to the conclusion that fame is a big con. Fortunately, Salon.com columnist Wilson also happens to a brilliant writer with a deliciously warped and blistering wiseass take.” – Entertainment Weekly

“Wilson should watch out. If she keeps being so funny and brutal, she’ll end up famous herself.” – USA Today

“A flamboyantly profane lambasting of the ‘perverse deformity’ of fame…. Rhinestone-studded prose…. With a backbone of rectitude that gives it substance.” – Kirkus Reviews

“These sixteen rabid, breakneck essays that take no prisoners, producing both gasps and laughter… Startling, witty and unerring. Wilson both entertains and deserves attention.” – Publishers Weekly

“Warning” do not read this book at a wake, on a precipice, or with a full bladder… Wilson’s turbo, heat-seeking essays about fam, the bane of our commodified culture, will induce bent-double, breathless laughter.” – Booklist

“Today, fame–not a good job or a first home–is the American Dream. It’s another psychological epidemic in need of a cure; A Massive Swelling might be an effective vaccination for the as of yet unafflicted.” – Gambit Weekly

“”[Cintra Wilson] wields one of the sharpest pens in the business… Her essays storm the cheesy walls of popular culture like a band of punk-chick Visigoths, ravage the sequin-clad icons within and leave Celine Dion on her ass in a puddle.” – Time Out New York

“By A Massive Swelling’s end, Wilson has built a formidable case for the toxicity of fame. She has us convinced.” – Playboy

“[Cintra Wilson’s] relentless, justifiably sarcastic gaze is unwavering… refreshingly gutsy and scorchingly accurate.” – Seattle Weekly

Success went fizzily to Bernard’s head, and in the process completely reconciled him (as any good intoxicant should do) to a world which, up to then, he had found very unsatisfactory In so far as it recognized him as important, the order of things was good. But, reconciled by his success, he yet refused to forgo the privilege of criticizing this order. For the act of criticizing heightened his sense of importance, made him feel larger. Moreover, he did genuinely believe there were things to criticize. (At the same time, he genuinely liked being a success and having all the girls he wanted.) – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Of course, what made the whole thing smell was that many of the rich and famous were dumb cunts and bastards. They had simply fallen into a big pay-off somewhere. Or they were enriched by the stupidity of the general public. They were usually talentless, eyeless, soulless, they were walking pieces of dung, but to the public they were god-like, beautiful, and revered. Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste. It finally boiled down to the matter of who got the most votes. In the land of the moles, a mole was king. So, who deserved anything? Nobody deserved anything . . . – Charles Bukowski, Hollywood

OTHER BOOKS BY CINTRA WILSON:

Caligula For President:

Better American Living Through Tyranny

Colors Insulting to Nature

Fear and Clothing:

Unbuckling American Style

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