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

by Eli Grober (Author)

There's a lot going on, all the time. It may feel overwhelming. Don't worry. It will end. This Won't Help is here for you in the meantime--with 100 short, sharp, satirical essays that skewer a world raging with inaction, while maximizing the profits of self-destruction. As if that would help!

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. (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 hypocrisy and dysfunction that surrounds us. But probably not.

Author Biography

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.