Hella Nation, Evan Wright
Hella Nation, Evan Wright
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Hella Nation
Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnut's War Against the GAP, and Other Adventures with the Totally Lost Tribes of America

Author: Evan Wright

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 14 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/28/2009

Synopsis

From his work as a reporter at Hustler magazine to his National Magazine Award—winning writing for Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair, Evan Wright has always had an affinity for outsiders—what he calls "the lost tribes of America." The previously published pieces in this collection chart a deeply personal journey, beginning with his stark but sympathetic portrayals of sex workers in Porn Valley, through his raw portrait of a Hollywood überagent—turned—war documentarian and hero of America's far right. Along the way, Wright encounters runaway teens earning corporate dollars as skateboard pitchmen; radical anarchists plotting the overthrow of corporate America; and young American troops on the hunt for terrorists in the combat zones of the Middle East. His subjects are people for whom the American dream is either just out of grasp or something they've chosen to reject altogether. Sometimes frightening, usually profane, and often darkly comic, Hella Nation is Evan Wright's meticulously observed tour of the jagged edges of all those other Americas hiding in plain sight amid the nation's malls and gated communities. This collection also includes an all-new, autobiographical introductory essay by the author.

About Evan Wright

Evan Wright, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, has also written for Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. He has won two National Magazine Awards for reporting and profile writing, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, a PEN Literary Award, and a General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation. He lives in southern California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carrie on July 24, 2009

I'm jealous of the journalistic niche Evan Wright has carved out for himself. Over a 10-year span at different publications including Hustler and Rolling Stone, he manages to keep getting assigned feature stories on people who have achieved infamy in some way. I know from experience how uncomfortabl......more

Goodreads review by Dan on January 24, 2010

This book is a collection of some of Evan Wright's journalism work. This book reprints (in slightly longer form) some stories he did for Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and other magazines. The stories in this book (in order that they occur): + Not Much War, but plenty of Hell: Wright reports embedded at......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on March 04, 2022

One of the best collections of journalism I've read in quite some time. There are other living US journalists worthy of an intelligent reader's attention - John McPhee, Eric Schlosser, David Remnick - but none as funny or as ferociously engaging as Evan Wright. His work has picked up some lazy compar......more

Goodreads review by Byron on October 31, 2018

Essentially a collection of magazine articles by the guy most famous for having written Generation Kill. I read a good half of these in Rolling Stone when I was in college, including the story that became Generation Kill, plus a version of his famous story on nutjob Hollywood agent ternt right wing......more

Goodreads review by Real on April 16, 2009

I am learning that my anxiety about having anxiety is not that uncommon. I feel an affinity to this writer, not sure yet about the book with the terrifying cover.... I loved Generation Kill (book more than HBO series, although I liked the series so much, too). Remember, I have developed as a woman b......more

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