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I Told You So

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Author: Kate Clinton
ISBN: 978-080704442-1
Pages: 
208
Binding Information: Cloth 
Size: 
5 1/2" X 8 1/2" Inches
Illustrated: 
No
Copyright Date Ed: 
05/01/2009
ISBN: 978-080704451-3
Binding Information: Audio 
Size: 
4 3/4" X 4 3/4" Inches
Illustrated: 
No
Copyright Date Ed: 
05/01/2009
Listen to Kate Clinton read "Why You'll Never Hear 'Heeeeeeere's Katie!'" (MP3), from the audio edition.
I Told You So is a hilarious, bittersweet, and politically acute survival guide. In collected columns and routines, Kate Clinton gleefully details personal coping techniques tested over a lifetime. They're perfectly suited for political and cultural upheaval: wildcatting for democracy, curbing your cynicism, and changing the climate. Read them and you'll never be voted off the island.

Clinton's new collection spans refreshingly disparate topics: sexual hypocrisy and gay marriage; girls gone wild and boys gone to war; Hillary Clinton and U.S. politics; Obama props and prop hates; baptism and waterboarding, as well as intelligent design, families of choice, and even bee colony collapses. With intriguing titles such as "The Sistine Shusher," "Lights out on Bush," and "The Closet and the Confessional," the essays in the book are classic Clinton-provocative, thoughtful, and edgy.

As a humorist for over twenty-five years, Clinton believes that making light-light enough to see and light enough to move-is what sustains us. What unites the essays is a Möbius strip of humor intended not to dissipate outrage but rather to motivate action.

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Review   Washington Blade - March 6, 2009

“Funny lesbian Kate Clinton’s book of vignettes, “I Told You So” (May), throws just as many ingredients into the pot — she riffs on Hillary Clinton and waterboarding, baptism and Provincetown — but comedic license and her own wicked sense of humor, allow Clinton a kind of thematic ADD that fiction would not afford.”

Review   Ms. - April 1, 2009

“Clinton proves in these essays—which cover topics from the inherent lesbianism of Sex and the City to three-dimensional thesauri—that she still ranks among the sharpest, funniest working comedians.”

Review   Jane and Jane Magazine - June 1, 2009

“Along with her brilliant delivery, indefatigable work ethic, and uncompromising political courage, Kate Clinton possesses the superpower of maintaining consistent relevancy in our fickle, sound-bite-driven, instant-downloadable age.”

Review   The Gay and Lesbian Times - July 1, 2009

“Hot-button topics such as same-sex marriage . . . gays in the military and religious hypocrisy are fertile fodder for the author’s intelligently caustic ridicule. But Clinton also has the knack of spinning even the small moments of everyday life into comic gold.” Quotes
"Kate Clinton makes our world bigger by sharing hers. With her laser beam wit, she offers up a series of bittersweet, twisted, tart and tangy, honest and from the heart essays. I enjoyed every minute of viewing the world through her eyes. All that and she is funny."
—Lewis Black, The Daily Show

"A hilarious, jam-packed and fun-filled collection of thoughts from the mind of an American original."
—Lily Tomlin

"I Told You So is true, terrifying, and coffee-out-your-nose funny. I love Kate Clinton. Buy the book, or I'll sic the NSA on your ass."
—Rachel Maddow, Host of "The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC and Air America


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