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Megan Volpert
The first critical biography of iconic musician Alanis Morissette, creator of Jagged Little Pill.
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Poetry. LGBT Studies. If Denis Johnson had written Tuesdays with Morrie, it’d feel like Megan Volpert’s book of prose poems. Clawing its way out through this minimalist checklist of suburban…
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Boss Broad contains forty poems and dozens of essays that explore what it takes to be a middle-aged hero. The poems are English-to-English translations of Bruce Springsteen songs–popular ones where…
With its perfect 8.5 x 8.5 square design and dynamic, art quality photographs, it would be easy to consider Closet Cases as a coffee table book. But coffee table books…
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About it gets better, they were never wrong, the path-forgers, the ground-breakers. How it gets better is another question, for a new century has brought changing minds, but also new…
Speaking directly to the pop icon’s ghost, Megan Volpert dives into a completely charted yet utterly unknown ocean that is Andy Warhol. The resulting collection of love letters and hate…
In this highly philosophical and deeply personal exploration of one obscure Tom Petty song, Volpert’s essays comb through the musical, historical, rhetorical, and sociological implications of a forgotten gem in…
Megan Volpert (Independent Scholar, Freelance Writer, USA)
A cultural and philosophical exploration of the art, science, and business of perfume –
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Philosophers analyze the last of the great rock stars.
The first truly philosophical exploration of the drag queen in the context of this ground-breaking reality TV show
