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100 1  Phillips, Brian,|d1976-|eauthor. 
240 10 Essays.|kSelections 
245 10 Impossible owls :|bessays /|cBrian Phillips. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,|c[2018] 
300    334 pages ;|c20 cm. 
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505 0  Out in the great alone -- Sea of crises -- Lost highway --
       The little gray wolf will come -- Man-eaters -- In the 
       dark: science fiction in small towns -- Once and future 
       queens -- But not like your typical love story. 
520    In his highly anticipated debut essay collection, 
       Impossible Owls, Brian Phillips demonstrates why he's one 
       of the most iconoclastic journalists of the digital age, 
       beloved for his ambitious, off-kilter, meticulously 
       reported essays that read like novels. The eight essays 
       assembled here--five from Phillips's Grantland and MTV 
       days, and three new pieces--go beyond simply chronicling 
       some of the modern world's most uncanny, unbelievable, and
       spectacular oddities (though they do that, too). 
       Researched for months and even years on end, they explore 
       the interconnectedness of the globalized world, the 
       consequences of history, the power of myth, and the ways 
       people attempt to find meaning. He searches for tigers in 
       India, and uncovers a multigenerational mystery involving 
       an oil tycoon and his niece turned stepdaughter turned 
       wife in the Oklahoma town where he grew up. Through each 
       adventure, Phillips's remarkable voice becomes a character
       itself--full of verve, rich with offhanded humor, and 
       revealing unexpected vulnerability. 
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