Moranifesto

Name: Moranifesto
Rating: 4.093 (231 reviews)
ISBN: 9780062433763

By Caitlin Moran

Publisher Description

From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman and Moranthology comes a collection of Caitlin Moran’s award-winning London Times columns that takes a clever, hilarious look at celebrities, society, and the wacky world we live in today—including three major new pieces exclusive to this book.

When Caitlin Moran sat down to choose her favorite pieces for her new book, she realized that they all shared a common theme—the same old problems and the same old ass-hats. Then she thought of the word ‘Moranifesto’, and she knew what she had to do…

Introducing every piece and weaving her writing together into a brilliant, seamless narrative—just as she did in Moranthology—Caitlin combines the best of her recent columns with lots of new writing unique to this book as she offers a characteristically fun and witty look at the news, celebrity culture, and society. Featuring strong and important pieces on poverty, the media, and class, Moranifesto also focuses on how socially engaged we’ve become as a society.

And of course, Caitlin is never afraid to address the big issues, such as Benedict Cumberbatch and duffel coats. Who else but Caitlin Moran—a true modern Renaissance woman—could deal with topics as pressing and diverse as the beauty of musicals, affordable housing, Daft Punk, and why the Internet is like a drunken toddler?

Covering everything from Hillary Clinton to UTIs, Caitlin’s manifesto is an engaging and mischievous rallying call for our times.

In her unapologetic Moranifesto, Caitlin Moran tackles the absurd and the essential with her signature working-class voice:

Political Commentary for Normal People: From Margaret Thatcher’s legacy to the Syrian refugee crisis, Moran applies her hilarious, no-bullshit logic to the issues we’re told are too complicated for us.
Celebrity Culture: Why we must defend hipsters, what it’s like getting drunk with Benedict Cumberbatch, and a deep dive into the unifying power of David Bowie.
Modern Feminism: Tackling everything from high heels and UTIs to abortion rights and online harassment with the raw honesty that made How to Be a Woman a global phenomenon.
The Absurdity of Everyday Life: Discover why printers are evil, the life-altering importance of bacon, and why the internet is basically a drunken toddler.

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Moranifesto Reviews

4.0

Amara

Created 6 months ago

Nathalia

Created 10 months ago

“Ok, It took me only 7 years to finish this book. And I’m glad I finally did it. To be honest one of the reasons I left the reading a lot of times was the language: the british english I’m not used to. But this time I did an extra effort. I really liked this nerdy sense of humor, and I totally see a resemblance to Lena Dunham and Douglas Adams writing to whom Moran makes reference in the book. The author is able to put in a very easy going reading (analogies, jokes and personal stories included) very complicated actual issues after personal analyses. It got me at the begining when she explains it’s important to talk about politics and how she was unable to do it because she used to thought she needed to be an expert to express her opinion and knowledge. Then she said, “I don’t really care, someone has to start these conversations”. She talks about sex-work, abortion, getting older, migration, renewable energy, inequality and other topics that should worry all of us. The book kept me thinking about how we choose when we vote in elections. As it happens, we have a big Election Day tomorrow in Mexico. It makes me sad and frustrated because if we were idealistic we would vote based in the proposals and the party platforms we have right? But we need to be practical in this case, because all of that doesn’t matter. The proposals aren’t really ideas thought to become reality, they are just thought to get votes and therefore money and power for the people elected. And the parties, they made alliances that not even make sense. An alliance between the right wing and the left wing? How it is supposed to handle affairs like abortion, social justice, civil rights, migration and the role of government itself if they are not only ideological different, they are opposite? It’s a shame. Although the context of the issues described in the book is very different from mine (She talks a lot about what it means to be English, English tv shows, their political system and traditions). I think the concern about what is happening today in the world is shared: How we must come with a term for our actual political and economic system, a system which combines the best of capitalism and socialism. And how we need to start suggesting alternatives to existing policies, writing manifiestos “How I would change the world”. “The good news is, we have a billion ways to improve it. Us. For we are the point of democracy. We are democracy. We are the conversation. We are the climate. We set the tone – we make the spaces where conversations turn into ideas, which then turn into action. We are the drivers – not just at the polling booth, every five years, but in the choices we make every day in what we buy, what we eat, the language we use, the ideas we share, the comments we make and the connections we make across the world.” - Caitlin Moran”

Diane

Created 11 months ago

Sophie

Created about 1 year ago

Chrissy Bailey

Created over 1 year ago

Captivating Challenging Clear thesis Conversational Easy to read Misogyny

About Caitlin Moran

Caitlin Moran’s debut book, How to Be a Woman, was an instant New York Times bestseller, with more than one million copies distributed worldwide. Her first novel, How to Build a Girl, received widespread acclaim, and she adapted it into a major motion picture starring Beanie Feldstein and Emma Thompson. As a twice-weekly columnist at The Times of London, Moran has won the British Society of Magazine Editors "Columnist of the Year" Award eight times. She lives in London.