A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined As a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations

Cintra Wilson's "A Massive Swelling" offers a razor-sharp take on our obsession with fame. With humor and insight, Wilson dissects celebrity culture, from Hollywood icons to notorious events, revealing the absurdity of our fascination. Her essays tackle sacred cows and the "tumescent aura" of showbiz with radical critiques and subversive humor. Exploring the allure and pitfalls of fame, Wilson's work is an engaging antidote to our celebrity-obsessed society.

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About the Author: Cintra Wilson
Cintra Wilson is a culture critic, journalist, playwright, performer, and author. She lives in the Batmobile, which is usually parked in New York City.
Whether you lust after it, loathe it, or feign apathy toward it, fame is in your face. Cintra Wilson gets to the heart of our humiliating fascination with celebrity and all its preposterous trappings in these hilarious, whip-smart, and subversive essays. Often radical and always a scream, Wilson takes on every sacred cow, toppling icons as diverse as Barbra Streisand, Ike Turner, Michael Jackson, and-for obvious reasons-Bruce Willis. She exposes events like the Oscars and even athletic jamborees as having grown a "tumescent aura of Otherness." Wilson's scathing and irresistible dissections of Las Vegas as "the Death Star of Entertainment," and Los Angeles as "a giant peach of a dream crawling with centipedes" pulse with her enlightened rejection of all things false and vain and egotistical. Written with her trademark zeal and intelligence, A Massive Swelling is the antidote for the fame virus that infects us all.

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