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A definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul's Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the pop culture blog Tom and LorenzoA New York Times New & Noteworthy bookOne of Logo/NewNowNext's "11 Queer Books We Can't Wait to Read This Spring"From the singular voices behind Tom and Lorenzo comes the ultimate guide to all-things RuPaul's Drag Race and its influence on modern LGBTQ culture. Legendary Children centers itself around the idea that not only is RuPaul's Drag Race the queerest show in the history of television, but that RuPaul and company devised a show that serves as an actual museum of queer cultural and social history, drawing on queer traditions and the work of legendary figures going back nearly a century. In doing so, Drag Race became not only a repository of queer history and culture, but also an examination and illustration of queer life in the modern age. It is a snapshot of how LGBTQ folks live, struggle, work, and reach out to one another--and how they always have--and every bit of it is tied directly to Drag Race. Each chapter is an examination of a specific aspect of the show--the Werk Room, the Library, the Pit Crew, the runway, the Untucked lounge, the Snatch Game--that ties to a specific aspect of queer cultural history and/or the work of certain legendary figures in queer cultural history.

This second edition of Beyond Chicken Soup beckons those who are unwilling to settle for easy answers provided by our mass culture, who want to think in new ways, who long to probe beneath the surface, who know they want their lives to reflect a deeper wisdom. Tom Fitzgerald has provided us a superb companion in Beyond Chicken Soup. Here's what Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, had to say recently about Beyond Chicken Soup: "How did Tom Fitzgerald get inside my head and know exactly what I needed to be told: A thoughtful and thought-provoking book" The book is divided into three sections. Fitzgerald begins with introductory pages giving small tastes of this deeper way of thinking. He furnishes glimpses of the ingredients that go into both intellectual and spiritual growth. The next section is designed to be used over the course of a year. Fitzgerald first tweaks our curiosity through 52 philosophical and/or spiritual thoughts, followed by seven questions, one for each day of the week. Readers are encouraged each day to pick up a pen, use the white space provided in the book, and begin writing the questions or thoughts that come to them from the reading. This directed journal writing will draw the reader deeper into their own wisdom, their own truths. Through this process, the inner life of the reader is fed and begins to grow. Knowing that today's readers have little time for what they long for the most, Fitzgerald has created a book that nourishes in small daily bites, allowing our minds and spirits to digest little by little and grow inch by inch. Then, in a stroke of genius, Fitzgerald brings his metaphor to life with five unique recipes for bread, nutritious bread, delicious bread. The recipes have been contributed by Beth Hensperger author of The Bread Bible. Whether you bake the bread or not, the recipes remind you of bread as metaphor for spiritual truth, and in the same way, remind you that wisdom, like bread, is to be taken in, chewed upon, swallowed and digested so that it creates the energy and the spirit with which we live our days. Welcome to the feast.