Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, Alexandra Petri
Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, Alexandra Petri
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Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why
Essays

Author: Alexandra Petri

Narrator: Rebecca Gibel

Unabridged: 5 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/14/2020


Synopsis

These impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from the resurgence of measles to the fiasco of the presidency.

In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics that will in no way unsettle your worldview.

In essays both new and adapted from her viral Washington Post columns, Petri reports that the Trump administration is as competent as it is uncorrupted, white supremacy has never been less rampant, and men have been silenced for too long. The "woman card" is a powerful card to play! Q-Anon makes perfect sense! This Panglossian venture into our swampy present offers a virtuosic first draft of history—a parody as surreal and deranged as the Trump administration itself.

Written with devastating wit that reveals a persistent, perhaps manic optimism about her benighted country, Petri's essays have become iconic expressions of rage and anger, read and liked and shared by hundreds of thousands of people. Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why shows why she has emerged as the preeminent political satirist of her generation.

About Alexandra Petri

Alexandra Petri is a humorist and columnist for the Washington Post and author of Alexandra Petri's US History and Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, a Thurber Prize finalist. Her satire has also appeared in McSweeney's and the New Yorker's Daily Shouts and Murmurs. She lives in Washington DC.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mara

4.5 stars-- this was so funny but oh so dark. Like, I had to take breaks because this was too real at many points. Petri's satire is exactly what we need after the last few years, and I loved watching her play with language and using it to expose the vacuity of so much of public discourse in age of......more

Goodreads review by Kristy

I won an advanced copy of this book in a Goodreads Giveaway in exchange for an honest review. Alexandra Petri is a satire columnist for the Washington Post. I have been reading her columns for some time, as living in the hellscape that is America under Trump makes satire, sarcasm, and intelligent hum......more