Megan Volpert is the author or editor of over a dozen books on popular culture, including two Lambda Literary Award finalists and an American Library Association honoree. She is the author of Straight Into Darkness: Tom Petty as Rock Mystic and she won Georgia Author of the Year for Boss Broad. She teaches at Kennesaw State and Reinhardt Universities.

I love this book! As insightful, provocative, and tenderly biting as its subject matter. Alanis forever. - Andrea Warner, author of We Oughta Know: How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the '90s and Changed Music Megan Volpert has written a lively and affectionate ode to the "raging sage" who so galvanized her during a fitful adolescence. Volpert listens to Morissette’s groundbreaking Jagged Little Pill through a clutch of filters, from Greek philosophy and lit theory to parodies, covers, and tribute bands; from the album’s Broadway adaptation to Morissette’s own personal writing about spirituality, sensitivity, and healing. Volpert is a lifer fan and a smart critic, "trust-falling backward" into her own past to argue that "Alanis matters because she continues to help millions of people get through life for a while." - Joe Bonomo, author of Play This Book Loud: Noisy Essays Ardent Morissette fans will savor this. (Publishers Weekly)

• Introduction 1. The Silence That Petrifies 2. To Remind You 3. For Your Own Damn Good 4. Chicken Shit 5. All the Information 6. Believe in Something 7. When the Smoke Clears 8. Best Friend with Benefits 9. Losing Weight Again 10. Yeah, I Really Do Think 11. If the Wound Is Not Mine 12. No Amount of My Insistence 13. Without Permission Works Consulted Acknowledgments

Megan Volpert is the author or editor of over a dozen books on popular culture, including two Lambda Literary Award finalists and an American Library Association honoree. She is the author of Straight Into Darkness: Tom Petty as Rock Mystic and she won Georgia Author of the Year for Boss Broad. She teaches at Kennesaw State and Reinhardt Universities.

I love this book! As insightful, provocative, and tenderly biting as its subject matter. Alanis forever. - Andrea Warner, author of We Oughta Know: How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the '90s and Changed Music Megan Volpert has written a lively and affectionate ode to the "raging sage" who so galvanized her during a fitful adolescence. Volpert listens to Morissette’s groundbreaking Jagged Little Pill through a clutch of filters, from Greek philosophy and lit theory to parodies, covers, and tribute bands; from the album’s Broadway adaptation to Morissette’s own personal writing about spirituality, sensitivity, and healing. Volpert is a lifer fan and a smart critic, "trust-falling backward" into her own past to argue that "Alanis matters because she continues to help millions of people get through life for a while." - Joe Bonomo, author of Play This Book Loud: Noisy Essays Ardent Morissette fans will savor this. (Publishers Weekly)

• Introduction 1. The Silence That Petrifies 2. To Remind You 3. For Your Own Damn Good 4. Chicken Shit 5. All the Information 6. Believe in Something 7. When the Smoke Clears 8. Best Friend with Benefits 9. Losing Weight Again 10. Yeah, I Really Do Think 11. If the Wound Is Not Mine 12. No Amount of My Insistence 13. Without Permission Works Consulted Acknowledgments

Megan Volpert is the author or editor of over a dozen books on popular culture, including two Lambda Literary Award finalists and an American Library Association honoree. She is the author of Straight Into Darkness: Tom Petty as Rock Mystic and she won Georgia Author of the Year for Boss Broad. She teaches at Kennesaw State and Reinhardt Universities.

I love this book! As insightful, provocative, and tenderly biting as its subject matter. Alanis forever. - Andrea Warner, author of We Oughta Know: How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the '90s and Changed Music Megan Volpert has written a lively and affectionate ode to the "raging sage" who so galvanized her during a fitful adolescence. Volpert listens to Morissette’s groundbreaking Jagged Little Pill through a clutch of filters, from Greek philosophy and lit theory to parodies, covers, and tribute bands; from the album’s Broadway adaptation to Morissette’s own personal writing about spirituality, sensitivity, and healing. Volpert is a lifer fan and a smart critic, "trust-falling backward" into her own past to argue that "Alanis matters because she continues to help millions of people get through life for a while." - Joe Bonomo, author of Play This Book Loud: Noisy Essays Ardent Morissette fans will savor this. (Publishers Weekly)

• Introduction 1. The Silence That Petrifies 2. To Remind You 3. For Your Own Damn Good 4. Chicken Shit 5. All the Information 6. Believe in Something 7. When the Smoke Clears 8. Best Friend with Benefits 9. Losing Weight Again 10. Yeah, I Really Do Think 11. If the Wound Is Not Mine 12. No Amount of My Insistence 13. Without Permission Works Consulted Acknowledgments