Welcome to hell world : dispatches from the American dystopia / Luke O'Neil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Neil, Luke, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Social conditions--21st century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : OR Books, [2019]

Summary:

When Luke O'Neil isn't angry, he's asleep. When he's awake, he gives vent to some of the most heartfelt, political and anger-fueled prose to power its way to the public sphere since Hunter S. Thompson smashed a typewriter's keys. Welcome to Hell World is an unexpurgated selection of Luke O'Neil's finest rants, near-poetic rhapsodies, and investigatory journalism. Racism, sexism, immigration, unemployment, Marcus Aurelius, opioid addiction, Iraq: all are processed through the O'Neil grinder. He details failings in his own life and in those he observes around him: and the result is a book that is at once intensely confessional and an energetic, unforgettable condemnation of American mores. Welcome to Hell World is, in the author's words, a "fever dream nightmare of reporting and personal essays from one of the lowest periods in our country in recent memory." It is also a burning example of some of the best writing you're likely to read anywhere.

Contents:

Front Cover

Back Cover

Half-Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

I don't know what this book is

I would want to drink their blood

Everywhere is the same place when you're drinking it's the place where the drinking is

The wind sometimes feels in error

We've already established that now we're just haggling over the price

I finally erased it because I felt it was time

So that nothing is wasted in nature

You have eternity to be dead so just wait

In the water most of the differences go AWAY

We always thought my sexual assault was the funniest thing

Who eats the sin-eater's sins?

Extending the area of freedom

I was thinking about murdering baboons

The only German word I know is weltschmerz

She's a woman not a spider

He is nothing less than a traitor, a monster

Sometimes I cannot control my life

They were probably just guilty anyway

People very much want to belong

We need to make sure that you belong here

My understanding is that eventually you will be unified

Give us the money or we'll kill your son

If you wonder where I am I will tell you just where I am

We have to hammer on the abusers in every way possible

Go viral or die trying

This is not worth dying for

It feels like coming out as a crazy person

The worst people alive

The last believers in an ordered universe

Make yourself as small as possible

At the end of the night I wanted a body

We're not gonna do it man. We can't. We quit

She was everything the world is not

My heart basically enlarged

The man who bowled a perfect game on 9/11

I made some very, very bad decisions

People tend to like it she said

We met by the moon on a silvery lake

They want to know if you have your pain coming

You start to lose track of how many you've killed.

I feel like I'm lost he said. I don't fit in here at all

I'm begging you, do not help me

Someone got scared and they were scared

The goal is to keep you trapped here forever until they can bleed you dry

He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting

People like that think fairness is a synonym for justice

There really is a beauty in the desolation of that

There were a few people that didn't support me but they kept it hidden

If they're black just shoot them

For a select few there are no consequences

They're just covering it up. This keeps happening

Misery is a thin blanket but it's better than being completely exposed

That is so much worse than you were probably already imagining right?

We pretend we don't see each other

Not to be too cliché but life can still be beautiful

You should still be here

It's going to be a long recovery

This might be my last night I close my eyes

They say if we're fatter we can accept more pollutants

He stayed there for a few hours dead on the Target floor

I hate what they've done to almost everyone in my family

It just sucks because I know the people he hates so much are basically the same people as me

I was depressed and I wanted to feel more depressed so I went to Cheers

I have decided that seeing this is worth recording.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68219-215-6

OCLC:

1243542620