Once upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories Garner, James Finn

James Finn Garner is back with more fairy tale surgery — turning beloved classics into sharp satire of 90s political correctness run amok. Snow White becomes "Snow White and the Seven Towering Individuals." Chicken Little warns of "follicle-deprived" sky. Every story gets the treatment: gender roles flipped, body positivity inserted, passive voice deployed to avoid assigning blame. It's absurd, it's pointed, and it's often very funny. Garner isn't mocking progressive values themselves — he's skewering the tortured language we sometimes use to express them. The jokes feel a bit dated now (this was peak PC culture panic), but the fundamental comedy holds: watching simple stories collapse under the weight of ideological overthink. For anyone who loves wordplay, satire, or remembers the first collection becoming an unlikely bestseller in the mid-90s.