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Gawker Slayer

Author : Charles Harder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Gawker Slayer written by Charles Harder and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dubbed "the highest-profile media lawyer in America" by The Hollywood Reporter, and "Hollywood's favorite lawyer," by Financial Times, CHARLES HARDER tells his story for the first time. With GAWKER SLAYER, Harder takes readers on a journey of his biggest cases, including his landmark $140 million trial victory against Gawker Media on behalf of his client, Hulk Hogan--on the fifth anniversary of the infamous trial verdict. The book intertwines fascinating narrations from Harder's 25-year career as a high-profile media and entertainment attorney, with personal stories about his life, upbringing and legal career, and also commentary on the media, law and major topics of the day including media bias, journalistic ethics, and cancel culture. GAWKER SLAYER tells the stories, with personal anecdotes, of Harder's most high-profile cases, including: * An in-depth, multi-chapter look inside the legal battle between Hulk Hogan and Gawker Media which resulted in the knockout verdict that put the company out of business. * Winning a multi-million dollar settlement, plus full retraction and apology, for First Lady Melania Trump against the Daily Mail. * Beating Stormy Daniels in two federal lawsuits, on behalf of client President Trump. *Representing Amber Heard in her divorce case against ex-husband Johnny Depp. * Representing Halle Berry in rewriting the laws to prevent paparazzi from harassing the children of celebrities. * Representing the Julia Child Foundation against Thermador for posthumously using Child's name and image to market their products, without permission or compensation. * Representing Sandra Bullock, Cameron Diaz and Reese Witherspoon in lawsuits to protect their name and image rights. GAWKER SLAYER is about doing what's necessary, sometimes through extraordinary measures, to protect fundamental rights, including free speech and free expression, and in the process protect individuals against the excesses of powerful media corporations, and promote responsibility and civility in society. CHARLES HARDER is a U.S. litigation and trial attorney who specializes in media law, First Amendment, defamation (libel & slander), privacy, reputation protection, entertainment, intellectual property and business litigation. Licensed to practice in California, New York and the District of Columbia, Mr. Harder is founder and managing partner of HARDER LLP (www.HarderLLP.com) based in Los Angeles, with offices in New York.

Seek and Hide

Author : Amy Gajda
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984880756
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Seek and Hide written by Amy Gajda and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gajda’s chronicle reveals an enduring tension between principles of free speech and respect for individuals’ private lives. …just the sort of road map we could use right now.”—The Atlantic “Wry and fascinating…Gajda is a nimble storyteller [and] an insightful guide to a rich and textured history that gets easily caricatured, especially when a culture war is raging.”—The New York Times An urgent book for today's privacy wars, and essential reading on how the courts have--for centuries--often protected privileged men's rights at the cost of everyone else's. Should everyone have privacy in their personal lives? Can privacy exist in a public place? Is there a right to be left alone even in the United States? You may be startled to realize that the original framers were sensitive to the importance of privacy interests relating to sexuality and intimate life, but mostly just for powerful and privileged (and usually white) men. The battle between an individual’s right to privacy and the public’s right to know has been fought for centuries. The founders demanded privacy for all the wrong press-quashing reasons. Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis famously promoted First Amendment freedoms but argued strongly for privacy too; and presidents from Thomas Jefferson through Donald Trump confidently hid behind privacy despite intense public interest in their lives. Today privacy seems simultaneously under siege and surging. And that’s doubly dangerous, as legal expert Amy Gajda argues. Too little privacy leaves ordinary people vulnerable to those who deal in and publish soul-crushing secrets. Too much means the famous and infamous can cloak themselves in secrecy and dodge accountability. Seek and Hide carries us from the very start, when privacy concepts first entered American law and society, to now, when the law allows a Silicon Valley titan to destroy a media site like Gawker out of spite. Muckraker Upton Sinclair, like Nellie Bly before him, pushed the envelope of privacy and propriety and then became a privacy advocate when journalists used the same techniques against him. By the early 2000s we were on our way to today’s full-blown crisis in the digital age, worrying that smartphones, webcams, basement publishers, and the forever internet had erased the right to privacy completely.

Media Law and Ethics

Author : Roy L. Moore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000439836
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Media Law and Ethics written by Roy L. Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive textbook provides a thoughtful introduction to both the legal and ethical considerations relevant to students pursuing careers in communication and media. The fully revised, sixth edition continues to integrate fundamental legal and ethical principles with cases and examples from both landmark moments and recent history. It expands upon the previous edition's exploration of international and non-U.S. law, introduces a new chapter on digital and social media, and incorporates discussion of new technologies and media throughout its coverage of core topics such as privacy, intellectual property, defamation and commercial speech. Coverage of recent court cases and congressional hearings brings readers up to date on the evolving discussion surrounding Facebook, Twitter and today’s other major online players. This hybrid textbook is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in media and communication that combine law and ethics. Online resources including chapter PowerPoint slides, study guides and sample teaching materials are available at www.routledge.com/9780367748562

The Gawker Guide to Conquering All Media

Author : Gawker Media
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416546367
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Gawker Guide to Conquering All Media written by Gawker Media and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the same deliciously biting irreverence and insider dish that's made Gawker.com addictive to millions of readers every month, The Gawker Guide to Conquering All Media serves up a hilarious blueprint for climbing to megawatt power in the media world. While yanking back the curtain on the media elite, The Gawker Guide reveals the secrets of emailing like a mogul, posing for the paparazzi, decoding "agent speak," spotting the next bestseller, landing that holy grail assignment, boosting blog traffic, navigating the six cocktail evening, and all the other weapons readers need to climb high -- and stay there. "I came, I saw, I conquered. With this book, I could've done it quicker." -- Julius Caesar

The Scorned and the Slayer

Author : Michael Phillips
Publisher : Michael Sullivan Phillips
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scorned and the Slayer written by Michael Phillips and published by Michael Sullivan Phillips. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tropical continent of Gutom exists dense jungles and bustling cities. To the north lies the nations established by the human and dwarven refugees of Umin. To the south lies the native nations of Gutom. For decades they have existed in a fragile state of peace, with each nation waiting to pounce should their neighbors make one false move. Though they remain divided by their beliefs, they have often been forced to unite in order to survive the wrath of their ancient enemy, the Yansorken. The Yansorken leaders, the dread triumvirate have long sought to master their powers over life and death. Their will to rule over the living and the dead alike has led to many wars with the people of Gutom, but never have they claimed total victory over their foes. Now the Yansorken seek to forge dark alliances in the hopes of succeeding where they had previously failed. The Shadow Sentinels, a band of outlaws, addicts, and misfits have come together under the guidance of a witch, who seeks to preempt the Yansorken's invasion. Will the Shadow Sentinels and the people of Gutom be able to put aside their differences to fend off this new invasion and if so, will their combined might be enough.... Find out in this riveting tale of swords and sorcery.

Conspiracy

Author : Ryan Holiday
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735217661
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Conspiracy written by Ryan Holiday and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Book Concierge Best Book of 2018! A stunning story about how power works in the modern age--the book the New York Times called "one helluva page-turner" and The Sunday Times of London celebrated as "riveting...an astonishing modern media conspiracy that is a fantastic read." Pick up the book everyone is talking about. In 2007, a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley-vertical of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. Thiel's sexuality had been known to close friends and family, but he didn't consider himself a public figure, and believed the information was private. This post would be the casus belli for a meticulously plotted conspiracy that would end nearly a decade later with a $140 million dollar judgment against Gawker, its bankruptcy and with Nick Denton, Gawker's CEO and founder, out of a job. Only later would the world learn that Gawker's demise was not incidental--it had been masterminded by Thiel. For years, Thiel had searched endlessly for a solution to what he'd come to call the "Gawker Problem." When an unmarked envelope delivered an illegally recorded sex tape of Hogan with his best friend's wife, Gawker had seen the chance for millions of pageviews and to say the things that others were afraid to say. Thiel saw their publication of the tape as the opportunity he was looking for. He would come to pit Hogan against Gawker in a multi-year proxy war through the Florida legal system, while Gawker remained confidently convinced they would prevail as they had over so many other lawsuit--until it was too late. The verdict would stun the world and so would Peter's ultimate unmasking as the man who had set it all in motion. Why had he done this? How had no one discovered it? What would this mean--for the First Amendment? For privacy? For culture? In Holiday's masterful telling of this nearly unbelievable conspiracy, informed by interviews with all the key players, this case transcends the narrative of how one billionaire took down a media empire or the current state of the free press. It's a study in power, strategy, and one of the most wildly ambitious--and successful--secret plots in recent memory. Some will cheer Gawker's destruction and others will lament it, but after reading these pages--and seeing the access the author was given--no one will deny that there is something ruthless and brilliant about Peter Thiel's shocking attempt to shake up the world.

99 Nights with the 99 Percent

Author : Chris Faraone
Publisher : David Eisenberg
ISBN 13 : 0985105909
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book 99 Nights with the 99 Percent written by Chris Faraone and published by David Eisenberg. This book was released on 2012 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Occupy Wall Street was the most covered news story of 2011. Among those who followed the movement like a storm chaser, Boston Phoenix Staff Writer Chris Faraone is one of the few who blogged about daily Occupy minutiae, but also stepped back to smoke lots of weed, investigate and analyze the protest, and deliver weekly features. Starting in September, Faraone published a series of deep Occupy portraits, traveling to more than a dozen cities from Boston to Seattle. His work illustrates day-to-day Occupy operations, as well the characters who make the movement tick. In the process, he also landed nationwide exclusives, like a scoop on a federation of police officers who support Occupy. Though Faraone is to the left of liberal, he wrote with a balanced reporter's eye, in many cases aggravating readers on both sides of the ideological aisle. Ignoring partisan preferences, Faraone dug for the root of topics ranging from an accused thief who moved between camps, to a veteran anarchist who was inspired by Occupy to come out from underground. As was noted in a recent Columbia Journalism Review profile of Faraone, his approach to covering Occupy was wholly unique, as he became "a one-man swarm: embedding full-time at Boston's Dewey Square encampment; visiting other movements around the country; juggling feature stories, blog posts, radio spots, and Twitter fights." 99 Nights with the 99 Percent is a collection of Faraone's published posts and articles on Occupy, streamlined into a sleek edition that also packs unpublished pieces and a number of bonus features. In addition to pics and illustrations, a series of haiku poems - or "Occupaikus" - run throughout the book, taking readers through a timeline of the first 100 days of the national movement. There are other books on Occupy, but 99 Nights is in a category of its own.

Things i Said on Gawker

Author :
Publisher : Cacy Forgenie
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Things i Said on Gawker written by and published by Cacy Forgenie. This book was released on with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Revolution Was Televised

Author : Alan Sepinwall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476739684
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Revolution Was Televised written by Alan Sepinwall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A phenomenal account, newly updated, of how twelve innovative television dramas transformed the medium and the culture at large, featuring Sepinwall’s take on the finales of Mad Men and Breaking Bad. In The Revolution Was Televised, celebrated TV critic Alan Sepinwall chronicles the remarkable transformation of the small screen over the past fifteen years. Focusing on twelve innovative television dramas that changed the medium and the culture at large forever, including The Sopranos, Oz, The Wire, Deadwood, The Shield, Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24, Battlestar Galactica, Friday Night Lights, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad, Sepinwall weaves his trademark incisive criticism with highly entertaining reporting about the real-life characters and conflicts behind the scenes. Drawing on interviews with writers David Chase, David Simon, David Milch, Joel Surnow and Howard Gordon, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, and Vince Gilligan, among others, along with the network executives responsible for green-lighting these groundbreaking shows, The Revolution Was Televised is the story of a new golden age in TV, one that’s as rich with drama and thrills as the very shows themselves.

Into Every Generation

Author : Evan Ross Katz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780306826689
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Into Every Generation written by Evan Ross Katz and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oral history and exploration of the cultural impact of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the classic, ground-breaking television show still adored by fans old and new, from pop culture critic and lifelong devotee of the show Evan Ross Katz, social media's foremost Sarah Michelle Gellar historian. Over the course of its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong, complex female lead, at a time when such a character was a rarity. In Into Every Generation, pop culture critic Evan Ross Katz will explore the show's history and cultural relevance through a book that is part oral history, part celebration, and part memoir of a very personal fandom that has universal resonance. Katz--with the help of the show's cast, creators, and crew--will reveal that although the show contributed to important conversations about gender, sexuality, and feminism, it was not free of internal strife and controversy. Men--both on screen and off--would taint its reputation as a feminist masterpiece, and changing networks would drastically change the show's tone and the lives of its cast. How those disruptions impact the show's production, the lives of its cast members, and, more broadly, pop culture will be examined. Katz will address these issues and more, including interviews with stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Charisma Carpenter, James Marsters, Emma Caulfield and many more, as well as conversations with celebrity Buffy fanatics and friends of the cast including Stacey Abrams, Cynthia Erivo, Lee Pace, Claire Saffitz, Tavi Gevinson, and Selma Blair. Furthermore, Into Every Generation will explore the very notion of fandom, and the ways a show like Buffy can influence not only how we see the world but how we exist within it.

Fractured Fandoms

Author : CarrieLynn D. Reinhard
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498552579
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Fractured Fandoms written by CarrieLynn D. Reinhard and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a fan helps people to discover their identities, find friends, develop a sense of belonging, express themselves creatively, and act as powerful creators and participants in a capitalistic system. At times, however, being a fan becomes problematic, especially when clashes with other fans occur both inside and outside of their fandoms and fan communities. As their communication becomes contentious, power imbalances destabilize collectives and fans experience fear, sadness, pain, and harassment. Such problematic situations can become “fractured fandoms.” Fractured Fandoms: Contentious Communication in Fan Communities observes the problems or fractures that occur within and between fandoms as fans and fan communities experience differences in interpretation, opinion, expectation, and behavior regarding the object at the center of their fandom. The book demonstrates the fractures through an examination of self-interviews, collected news stories, and previous research regarding these problems, ultimately providing an assessment of the causes and effects of such fractures and the larger social and cultural issues they reflect.

Albion's Seed

Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019974369X
Total Pages : 981 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Albion's Seed written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-14 with total page 981 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.

Slayer Slang

Author : Michael Adams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190291923
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Slayer Slang written by Michael Adams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its seven years on television, Buffy the Vampire Slayer has earned critical acclaim and a massive cult following among teen viewers. One of the most distinguishing features of the program is the innovative way the show's writers play with language: fabricating new words, morphing existing ones, and throwing usage on its head. The result has been a strikingly resonant lexicon that reflects the power of both youth culture and television in the evolution of American slang. Using the show to illustrate how new slang is formed, transformed, and transmitted, Slayer Slang is one of those rare books that combines a serious explanation of a pop culture phenomena with an engrossing read for fans of the show, word geeks, and language professionals. Michael Adams begins his book with a synopsis of the program's history and a defense of ephemeral language. He then moves to the main body of the work: a detailed glossary of slayer slang, annotated with actual dialogue and recorded the style accepted by the American Dialect Society. The book concludes with a bibliography and a lengthy index, a guide to sources (novels based on the show, magazine articles about the show, and language culled from the official posting board) and an appendix of slang-making suffixes. Introduced by Jane Espenson, one of the show's most inventive writers (and herself a linguist), Slayer Slang offers a quintessential example of contemporary youth culture serving as a vehicle for slang. In the tradition of The Physics of Star Trek, Slayer Slang is one of those rare books that offers a serious examination a TV cult phenomenon appealing to fans and thinkers alike. A few examples from the Slayer Slang glossary: bitca n [AHD4 bitch n in sense 2.a + a] Bitch 1997 Sep 15 Whedon When She Was Bad "[Willow:] 'I mean, why else would she be acting like such a b-i-t-c-h?' [Giles:] 'Willow, I think we're all a little old to be spelling things out.' [Xander:] 'A bitca?'" break and enterish adj [AHD4 sv breaking and entering n + -ish suff in sense 2.a] Suitable for crime 1999 Mar 16 Petrie Enemies "I'll go home and stock up on weapons, slip into something a little more break and enterish." [B] carbon-dated adj [fr. AHD4 carbondating + -ed] Very out of date 1997 Mar 10 Whedon Welcome to the Hellmouth "[Buffy:] 'Deal with that outfit for a moment.' [Giles:] 'It's dated?' [Buffy:] 'It's carbon-dated.'" cuddle-monkey n [AHD4 cuddle v + monkey n in sense 2, by analogy fr. RHHDAS (also DAS3 and NTC) sv cuddle bunny 'an affectionate, passionate, or sexually attractive young woman'] Male lover 1998 Feb 10 Noxon Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered "Every woman in Sunnydale wants to make me her cuddle-monkey." [X]

Monster Slayer

Author : Robert Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book Monster Slayer written by Robert Scott and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Slayer

Author : Keith Topping
Publisher : Virgin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780753508442
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Slayer written by Keith Topping and published by Virgin Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unofficial guide to the world of Sunnydale, Keith Topping analyses the seventh and final season of this massively popular show, discussing it episode by episode and presenting the highlights in categories such as- A Little Learning as a Dangerous Thing and Denial, Thy Name is Buffy. He unearths pop-culture references, soundtrack information and draws attention to the times when logic flies out of the window. As well as a summary of the previous six seasons, there are sections on the extensive media coverage of the series finale, the Internet realm of Buffy and what happens next in the world of vampires, witches, Watchers and Slayers.

Sex and the Slayer

Author : Lorna Jowett
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819567581
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Sex and the Slayer written by Lorna Jowett and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author aims "to demonstrate in this book not how "feminist" or "progressive" the show is but how it represents femininity, masculinity, and gender relations, including sexuality, and how this relates to the context of genre. The book aims to draw out ... patterns of gender representation and to relate these to relevant contexts".--Intro.

You're on an Airplane

Author : Parker Posey
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735218196
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book You're on an Airplane written by Parker Posey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Bestseller Have you ever wondered what it would be like talk to Parker Posey? On an airplane, with Parker as your seat companion, perhaps? Parker’s irreverent, hilarious, and enchanting memoir gives you the opportunity. Full of personal stories, whimsical how-tos, recipes, and beautiful handmade collages created by the author herself, You’re On an Airplane is a delight in every way. In her first book, actress and star of movies such as Dazed and Confused, Party Girl, You’ve Got Mail, The House of Yes, and so many more, Posey opens up about the art of acting, life on the set, and the realities of its accompanying fame. A funny and colorful southern childhood prepared Posey for a life of creating and entertaining, which not only extends to acting but to the craft of pottery, sewing, collage, yoga, and cooking, all of which readers will find in this whimsical, hilarious, always entertaining book. Parker takes us into her childhood home, behind the scenes of the indie film revolution in the 90s, the delightful absurdity of the big-budget genre thrillers she’s turned into art in a whole new way, and the creativity that will always be part of both her acting and her personal life. With Posey’s memorable, hilarious, and poignant voice, her book gives the reader a feeling of traveling through not only a memoir, but an exploration, meditation, and celebration of what it means to be an artist. Buckle up and enjoy the journey.