{"product_id":"no-one-is-looking-at-you-9781955826884","title":"No One is Looking at You","description":"What happens when no one is watching-or when you think no one is?In this razor-sharp, tenderly comic collection, James Magruder charts the evolving landscape of queer identity with heartbreaking honesty and wicked charm. The first half, Origin Stories, follows a group of closeted young men fumbling toward self-knowledge at Cornell University in the late '70s and early '80s-when disco was dying, Reagan was rising, and love still had to hide in the shadows.Fast forward forty years to Parting Shots, where Roger Hauf, a tenured professor of dramatic literature and full-time observer of human folly, offers up the hard-won wisdom of a man who's seen it all-and admits he still doesn't have it figured out. Roger knows his students tune him out, but maybe you'll listen when he tells you: everyone should chase love across an ocean at least once, the right dance belt changes everything, and-spoiler alert-high school never really ends.Smart, sexy, and unafraid to look longing in the eye, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e No One Is Looking at You\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a glorious reminder that while we're all just trying to make it through the scene, the performance is always personal.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMagruder, James:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - James Magruder has published four other books of fiction: Sugarless, Let Me See It, Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall, and Vamp Until Ready (also from Rattling Good Yarns). Yale University Press published his Three French Comedies, a collection of translations that was cited as an \"Outstanding Literary Translation of the Year\" by the American Literary Translators Association; and The Play's the Thing: Fifty Years of Yale Repertory Theatre (1966-2016), his first-and last-book of non-fiction. His translations and adaptations of works by Marivaux, Molière, Lesage, Labiche, Gozzi, Dancourt, Hofmannsthal, Dickens, and Giraudoux have been produced off-Broadway, across the country, and in England, Japan, Australia, and Germany. He wrote, or co-wrote, the books for two Broadway musicals, Triumph of Love, and the more recent Head Over Heels, a deeply queer, blank verse mashup of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia (1590) and the song catalog of the Go-Go's. He is a five-time MacDowell Fellow and a 34-year resident of Baltimore.","brand":"Rattling Good Yarns Press, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52179994575122,"sku":"9781955826884","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_47b28e42-407e-46ec-bebf-0185100422c2.jpg?v=1775643118","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/no-one-is-looking-at-you-9781955826884","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}