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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 Worldis 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 Worldis, 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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Luke O'Neil is not on staff. -- The Boston Globe Unbelievable. --Ben Shapiro The Left's new low. --Tucker Carlson A widely read, offbeat newsletter... --Mike Isaac, The New York Times Luke O'Neil is one of the few writers who faces our grim reality the way it is, and not the way we wish it was. Compiling Hell World is a sin-eater's task, and we are indebted to him for doing it. --Dan Ozzi, co-author of Tranny One of my favorite things I read all year... --Frida Garza, Jezebel's The Best Political Writing 2018 Welcome to Hell World is a distress call from a place where hope still exists, dispatched by a man who clearly sees the insanity of life in America and believes it doesn't have to be this way. --Keith Buckley of Every Time I Die, author of Watch Luke O'Neil is like no other journalist working today, fusing original reporting with memoir and frequently-profane observational humor to create what feels like a new type of truth-telling: precise, fucked-up, infuriating, and, somehow, beautiful. ...This is what it looks like when a gifted writer finds his voice. --Hamish McKenzie, co-founder of Substack and author of Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil This is this guy Luke O'Neil writing....This is the kind of crap that now comprises the Democrat voting base.... You ask, 'Who are these people?' Well, they're not us. These people are sick. They are deranged, lunatic, sick.... --Rush Limbaugh

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Luke O'Neil has written for Esquire, New York Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Playboy, Slate, Vice, and many other publications. A longtime musician, he currently performs in the indie rock band no hope / no harm. A native of Massachusetts, he lives in that state with his wife Michelle.

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