This Won’t Help: Modest Proposals for a More Enjoyable Apocalypse - Hardcover

Grober, Eli

 
9781615199990: This Won’t Help: Modest Proposals for a More Enjoyable Apocalypse
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1615199993 ISBN 13: 9781615199990
Verlag: The Experiment, 2023

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“Guaranteed, nonstop laughs (and only some sobbing).”—Emma Allen, humor and cartoon editor for The New Yorker
 
Part catharsis, part diagnosis, this uproarious collection from New Yorker and McSweeney’s satirist Eli Grober navigates our modern maelstrom. Nothing in this book will help—but a few good laughs won’t hurt. Probably.

There’s a lot going on, all the time. It may feel overwhelming. Don’t worry. It will all be over soon. Until then, This Won’t Help is here to guide you through the apocalypse—offering 100 modest proposals for how you, too, can bask in the End Times. With sharp, satirical essays, stories, correspondences, and more, humorist Eli Grober stares down a world raging with inaction, while corrupt politicians and the 1 percent maximize the profits of self-destruction. As if any of this will help!
 
Enjoy ineffective think pieces such as . . .
 

  • We Can Still Avoid Climate Catastrophe If We Act Before the End of This Sentence Never Mind Too Late
  • How to Walk 10,000 Steps a Day in Your Apartment
  • I Firmly Believe in Your Right to Vote, So Long as You’re Voting for Me
  • How I Saved Enough to Buy a House with My Parents’ Money
  • I’m Being Censored, and You Can Read, Hear, and See Me Talk About It in the News, on the Radio, and on TV
 
Eli Grober’s biting, Swiftian prose spares no one—not the megalomaniacal billionaire fleeing Earth for a better life on unlivable Mars, not an extremely online family living completely off-grid, not even a fossil-fuel lobbyist insisting we all stop using straws. (However, Eli does spare a kind thought for the supremely intelligent readers with the good sense to buy this book.) Maybe, just maybe, descending through the inferno of our environmental, economic, and political landscape will help us find real solutions to the absurdity, hypocrisy, and dysfunction that surround us. But probably not!

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Eli Grober is an American satirist. He is a longtime humor contributor to The New Yorker and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and has authored some of their most-read humor pieces. He writes the weekly satirical newsletter Here’s Something, and he is a former staff writer for The Tonight Show.

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Verlag
The Experiment
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1615199993
ISBN 13 
9781615199990
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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