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Alissa Bennett’s Taxidermist’s Handbook.
A softcover anthology of all 5 books from the Dead is Better series & essays from other books.
New introductory essay by Bennett.
A fashion model–turned-writer-and-podcaster (she co-hosts Luminary’s The C Word with Lena Dunham), Bennett occupies an odd liminal ground between public personality and layperson. First and foremost, she’s a fan. In The C Word, Bennett and Dunham “sif[t] through the cultural trash heap of history” (as per their intro) to better understand famous, fallen women maligned as crazy. Bennett is an expert researcher and internet stalker, pulling from obscure fan forums and shuttered tabloids to paint heartbreaking portraits of fame. She has also put her sleuthing skills to work in her Dead Is Better zine since 2016. To date, Bennett has published five issues about celebrity deaths, obsessive fandom, and bad behavior to critical acclaim: her work has been profiled by the likes of The New York Times, Vogue, and SSENSE. Now, with indie publisher Heinzfeller Nileisist, she has anthologized her essays in her debut book Taxidermist’s Handbook, which came out last month at the L.A. Art Book Fair.
-Ariella Garmaise, LA Review of Books
374 black and white interior pages
Color cover
Second Edition
500 copies