The Braindead Megaphone [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

"Some novelists seem to make great reporters. Two of the best journalists of the last 50 years are Norman Mailer and David Foster Wallace; their literary nonfiction is jaw-droppingly good, the equal of their fiction. Maybe it's time to add noted short-story writer George Saunders to this short list... Is Saunders' book on target? Hoo boy. [Grade: ] A"--Entertainment Weekly

"Saunders's bitingly clever and compassionate essays are a Mark Twain-syle shot in the arm for Americans, an antidote to the dumbing down virus plaguing our country."--Vanity Fair

In a compilation of nonfiction essays, the author of In Persuasion Nation shares his thoughts on literature, politics, and travel, in a collection that includes his accounts of his attempts to sample the extravagant pleasures of Dubai, experiences with the minute men along the Mexican border, analyses of the modern American political landscape, and more. Original. 50,000 first printing.