- Laura Penny
Laura Penny (born 1975) is the author of "Your Call is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit", a study of the phenomenon of
bullshit and its role in modern society.Penny was featured on "
60 Minutes " with Princeton professorHarry Frankfurt , author of the similarly-themed treatise, "On Bullshit". Penny is a frequent contributor to the "Globe and Mail ". She has also written for the "National Post ", "Saturday Night", "Chatelaine", and "Toronto Life " (for which she is also a contributing editor).Penny holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the
State University of New York . From 2002 to 2006, she taught at theUniversity of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she was a Senior Fellow in the Foundation Year Programme. She now teaches at Halifax'sMount Saint Vincent University while still giving occasional lectures at King's College.Penny is currently writing "A No-Brainer: Ignorance, Idiocy, and Anti-Intellectualism", which is set to be published by McClelland & Stewart.
Bibliography
* cite book
first=Laura | last=Penny
authorlink = Laura Penny
title=Your Call Is Important To Us: The Truth About Bullshit
year=2005
publisher=Random House
id=ISBN 1-4000-8103-3
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