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Three Slow Burn Novels For the Fall: A Fictional Account of 12 Century Poet Marie de France, a murder-mystery, and Happy Hour, a Debut Novel about 2 Young Women Navigating a Hot NYC Summer
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... meanders, and it’s perhaps too bogged down by stereotypical millennial navel-gazing to truly work as a sharp satire. Happy Hour is for anyone who’s ever scrolled through Instagram wondering, “Who is this ...
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Created on 14 September 2021
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Jenny Slate's Film "The Sunlit Night" Is An Earnest And Honest Attempt At Translating Creative Thinking Onto The Screen: Revi
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... other characters. It’s just a shame that it’s not a particularly enjoyable film.
After being subjected to a comically brutal art school critique (which opens the movie with a bit of a satire fake-out ...
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Created on 25 June 2021
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Comedian Grace Kuhlenschmidt is Here, She's Queer, and Her Social Media Fans are Into I
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(Entertainment)
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... of surprise and satire. Most important, her style is hilariously, unabashedly, almost boastfully queer. Kuhlenschmidt, 26, doesn’t explicitly endeavor to make her videos on Instagram (for her 54k followers) ...
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Created on 27 May 2021
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In "Together Together," Ed Helms and Patti Harrison Form A Fragile Attachment During A Surrogate Pregnanc
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... or so,” she says to Matt over dinner early in the film. Despite its emotionally heavy subject matter, the movie could be viewed as a satire, a spirited criticism of the notion that female biology defines ...
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Created on 27 April 2021
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"First One In" Is A Feminist Take On The Classic Sports Comed
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... backstabs, and backhanded comments, First One In serves up a tongue in cheek female-driven satire on sports comedies. Ripping into the world of real estate agents and Connecticut country club dwellers, ...
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Created on 11 September 2020
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Sarah Cooper, Trump’s Worst Nightmare, Is Getting Her Own Netflix Special
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Sarah Cooper has made a name for herself over the past few years as a comedian, but she really blew up this year with the help of TikTok. She posts humorous videos of herself lip-syncing to Donald Trump ...
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Created on 14 August 2020
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Less Manipulation, More Representation: Popular TV Shows Pull Episodes with Offensive Caricatures
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(Feminism)
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... manager. The show employed satire to expose unacceptable behavior and deliver a message of inclusion. Today we cut a shot of an actor wearing blackface that was used to criticize a specific racist European ...
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Created on 29 June 2020
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Natasha Lyonne On Millennials, Maintaining Independence In Relationships, Healthy Adult Friendships, And "Russian Doll": BUST Intervie
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... Clea DuVall, her co-star in 1999’s But I’m a Cheerleader, a cult classic satire about conversion therapy. “Clea’s a mom and everything so I think that, selfishly, I am always trying to seduce her into ...
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Created on 04 February 2020
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"I Am Homosexual": Celebrating 20 Years Of Team Spirit In "But I’m a Cheerleade
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... in Season 4 and DuVall as Abbi’s girlfriend in the final season).
But I'm A Cheerleader, however, did not initially receive much love from the gay community nor the mainstream press. A satire about conversion ...
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Created on 29 June 2019
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Badass Comedian Emily Duke is Everything: BUST Interview
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(Entertainment)
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... her toes more times than one in the pee-ridden kiddie pool that I’m assuming is the New York comedy scene, doing everything from stand-up, to writing satire, to having her own web series, to (yup, I’m ...
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Created on 24 June 2019
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How Georgian and Regency Literature Shaped Society's View Of Cat
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... Shelley). Instead of satire or fictional tales, the author of the piece examines the nature of animals from a scientific and philosophical standpoint.
“That some animals not only display wonderful sagacity ...
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Created on 08 May 2019
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How "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" Subverts Gender Stereotype
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(TV)
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... sociological satire, and an emotionally poignant drama. She has left behind a wildly creative and uniquely progressive body of work that has cemented her legacy as a fiercely feminist icon of the digital ...
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Created on 14 February 2019
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Are You Kidding Me? James Deen To Appear In A Film Called "Consent
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... did some bad stuff.”
Beyond the notion of an accused rapist and abuser being in a film called Consent, which sounds like a bit of Juvenalian satire, Stagliano’s reasoning brings up another pressing issue ...
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Created on 01 February 2019
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"Corn Fed" Writer Melanie LaForce On Anxiety, Writing, And Coming Of Age In The Midwes
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... funder will stumble across my online masturbation satire. It’s just easier to keep the lives separate.
In the book, you discuss having anxiety from an early age. But growing up as a Gen Xer, I don’t ...
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Created on 31 January 2019
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Week Of Women: January 18-24, 2018
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... the interview was covered by everyone from the Hollywood Reporter to USA Today to Jezebel. Listen here.
MOVIES
Egg
Directed by Marianna Palka, Egg is a satire on motherhood starring Christina ...
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Created on 17 January 2019
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The Belladonna Co-Founder Caitlin Kunkel On “New Erotica for Feminists”
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... for Feminists: Satirical Fantasies of Love, Lust, and Equal Pay; The Belladonna; and Caitlin Kunkel.
More from BUST
The Belladonna Dishes Out Feminist Comedy And Satire
"Hot And Bothered" Is Your ...
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Created on 20 December 2018
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"Days Of Awe" Is A Surreal Satire Of Suburban Americ
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Days of Awe: Stories By A.M. Homes (Viking)
With Days of Awe, writer A.M. Homes returns to the style that first launched her career: satirical fiction that casts a critical eye at suburban America ...
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Created on 29 October 2018
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9 Witchy Books To Read This Halloween
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... to biting satire, The Power is both a feminist manifesto and an indictment of our time.
A Secret History of Witches by Louisa Morgan A Secret History of Witches follows the women of the Orchire ...
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Created on 26 October 2018
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Ling Ma's “Severance” Is A Zombie Apocalypse Novel That Will Stay With Yo
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(Books)
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... been promised a generous payout if she works until a certain date. But it's more than that, too—with the world falling apart, what else is she supposed to do? It's a satire of 21st century capitalism, both ...
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Created on 13 August 2018
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Tina Fey, Just Before "Mean Girls": From The BUST Archive
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... satire. I need to have a couple of other moves up my sleeve.
Story by Emily Rems
Photos by Ramona Rosales
This interview first appeared in BUST's Spring 2004 issue. Subscribe now.
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Created on 20 April 2018
