Self-Analysis Addict: Essays on the Pop Culture That Raised Me
Ever since his mother first handed him any VHS tape from the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection line as a toddler, author Jeffrey Davies has been infatuated with pop culture. As he grew up, he came to understand the transformative power of movies, TV, books, and music to speak for us when we don’t have the words, how they teach us lessons we didn’t know we needed to learn until we rewatch Labyrinth in our twenties and realize the indelible imprint certain stories, and King Jareth’s crotch, can leave on us.
In his first collection of essays, some previously published and some never before seen, Davies examines the pop culture that has shaped his life and allowed him to achieve some sense of inner peace in a chaotic world, at least until the end credits. Whether it’s Nancy Drew teaching him that gender roles aren’t real or Sydney Bristow from Alias quite literally saving his life, Self-Analysis Addict is a love letter to the pieces of media that provide us with different lenses through which to better understand the world, and to fill in the blanks in our own lives when we can’t bear to do it ourselves.
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Keys I Haven’t Lost Yet: Poems
In this debut poetry collection, author Jeffrey Davies reckons with the function of memory: how much we choose to remember, and what we recall against our will long after it ceases to serve us. In between his demonstration of a strong sense of recollection as both a blessing and a curse, he explores the facets of modern life through a close examination of queerness, depression, anxiety, pop culture, and adulthood. As he comes to terms with the parts of himself and each other that are beyond our control, he learns that love grows as much as it floats, and that our lives belong to us alone.
As If By Magic and Other Tales
Take a walk in the woods and you never know what you might find there. A young girl once beautiful now cursed with facial deformities, learning to love what’s within. Two sisters once estranged finding their way back home. A little girl going to visit her grandmother, unaware of the generational trauma she carries. An unappreciated scullery maid who takes matters into her own hands. An eligible maiden rewarded for her courage and bravery in the face of abuse. The five reimagined fairy tales in As If By Magic and Other Tales ask the reader to consider motive and consequence, and root for the underdog in the face of adversity.
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