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.
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New today! Atlanta-based writer @rachel_garbus discussed her article at Welcome to Hell World, "Stopping #CopCity, the murder of Tortuguita, and the trees that got us here."https://t.co/1LzEiStk6H
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“By now you've seen the disgusting New York Post story and the passive New York Times tweet in which Neely's killer was provided the exonerative tense cover usually reserved for police when they kill.” - from Luke O’Neil’s ‘Welcome To Hell World’ email today https://t.co/r1ngLx3t91