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Summary
The follow-up to Caitlin Moran's breakout hit,How to Be a Woman-A hilarious collection of award-winning columns, available to American readers for the first time ever. Possibly the only drawback to the bestsellingHow to Be a Womanwas that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman.Moranthologyis 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. Caitlin ruminates on-and sometimes interviews-subjects as varied as caffeine, Keith Richards,Ghostbusters, Twitter, transsexuals, the welfare state, the royal wedding, Lady Gaga, and her own mortality, to name just a few. With her unique voice, Caitlin brings insight and humor to everything she writes.
Author Biography
Caitlin Moran was named Columnist of the Year by the British Press Awards in 2010, and Critic and Interviewer of the Year in 2011, for her work in the Times of London. Her debut book, How to Be a Woman, won the 2011 Galaxy Book of the Year Award and was an instant New York Times bestseller. You can follow Caitlin on Twitter @caitlinmoran.
Table of Contents
| Introduction-or: I Try To Be Good | p. 1 |
| Call Me Puffin | p. 17 |
| Caffeine-Lifeblood of the Twenty-first Century | p. 20 |
| Celebrity Watch Special: Michael Jackson's Memorial | p. 23 |
| I Am Caitlin Moran, and I Was a Skunk Addict | p. 30 |
| I Am Late to Interview the Prime Minister | p. 34 |
| What I Learned up a Mountain This Summer | p. 37 |
| I Am a Dwarf Called "Scottbaio" | p. 41 |
| I Do a Lot for Charity, but I Would Never Mention It | p. 47 |
| Ghostbusters Is the Greatest Film of All Time. Please Do Not Argue with Me. | p. 50 |
| Keith-Noddy Holder Says You Wear a Wig | p. 54 |
| Sherlock Review 1: Like a Jaguar in a Cello | p. 69 |
| Sherlock Review 2: The Frumious Cumberbatch | p. 72 |
| Hello. You Look Wonderful. | p. 76 |
| First Time Ever I Saw Your Face | p. 81 |
| The Gay Moon Landings | p. 84 |
| We Only Had Two Transsexuals in Wolverhampton | p. 87 |
| Come Party With Gaga | p. 90 |
| MTV Hoes | p. 106 |
| Burqas: Are the Men Doing It? | p. 109 |
| This Cape Makes Me Look Like Wizbit | p. 112 |
| We Need Quotas, Ladies. Or We Will Be Lonely Pelicans. | p. 115 |
| I Would Like Some Chivalry, Please, Dude | p. 118 |
| Don't Feed the Troll | p. 122 |
| On the Set of Doctor Who | p. 125 |
| This is Not a Gift | p. 134 |
| All the Ways I've Ruined Your Life | p. 139 |
| I Refuse to Make You Goody Bags. Leave Before I Summon a Policeman. | p. 142 |
| I Hate Charlie and Lola | p. 145 |
| The Horror of Daddy's Special Lemonade | p. 148 |
| In Defense of Binge Drinking | p. 151 |
| Aberystwyth: The Only Place I Stop Wanting | p. 154 |
| Libraries: Cathedrals of Our Souls | p. 159 |
| Unlike Most of the Coalition, I Was Raised on Benefits | p. 162 |
| I Know What It's Like to be Poor. They Took Away the TV, and We Cried. | p. 165 |
| I Love a Protestor. You Don't Need Answers-Just Questions. | p. 168 |
| Downton Abbey Review 1: Lady Mary's Haunted Vagina | p. 171 |
| Downton Abbey Review 2: "SEX WILL BE HAD! SEX WILL BE HAD!" | p. 176 |
| Summer Is an Emergency | p. 180 |
| Time Travel in the Same Four Places | p. 183 |
| My French Dress | p. 189 |
| Sherlock Review 3: As Good as Television Gets | p. 192 |
| I Wish to Copyright My Hair | p. 196 |
| Chicks with Big Hair Are My Chicks | p. 199 |
| The Best Royal Wedding Ever | p. 202 |
| My Day with Paul McCartney. From the Beatles. | p. 213 |
| Celebrity Weight-Loss: The Truth | p. 224 |
| Elizabeth Taylor: Heavy, Like Wet Roses | p. 227 |
| Winehouse-Jump on Your Voice, Like a Lion, and Run Away | p. 229 |
| My Tragically Early Death | p. 232 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 235 |
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