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Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

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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.
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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Rebecca Gibel offers a humorous performance of this collection of satirical essays that provide insight into several political topics. Gibel's crisp and understated yet energetic voice explains how safe spaces coddle American children and deny them the same struggles their parents experienced. With tongue in cheek, Gibel also states the author's "claim" that Trump is a calculating genius who is most definitely competent and captures her wonder at the audacity of those who want to strip men of their well-deserved privilege and threaten their careers, when what happened (whatever it was) probably wasn't that bad--after all, boys will be boys. Full of sharp humor and horrified dismay, Petri's powerful words are enhanced by Gibel's deadpan, reassuring delivery. An enlightening delight for liberal listeners. A.K.R. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 13, 2020
      Washington Post columnist Petri (A Field Guide to Awkward Silences) takes on the Trump presidency and related issues with this superb and stinging collection of new and previously published pieces. She skewers triumphal accounts of Trump’s inauguration (sarcastically writing that “Bono, and Bruce Springsteen, and Elton John, and the Rolling Stones, and Beyoncé, and all the top artists were there”), mocks conspiracy theories by recasting the “deep state” as a regional college (“Does Deep State have a football team? No, but it controls the outcomes of all football games”), and analyzes the Mueller Report with a pitch-perfect parody of a middle-school book report (“One way in which this book did not succeed was its lack of female characters”). Also included is Petri’s Post column “Trump’s Budget Makes Perfect Sense and Will Fix America, and I Will Tell You Why,” which the White House, mistaking it for sincere praise, publicized in its “1600 Daily” e-newsletter in 2017. But the best essays are those in which she is dead serious, including 2018 pieces on families separated at the Mexican border and Christine Blasey Ford’s decision to reveal her past with now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Acidic and spot-on, Petri’s work captures the surreal quality of Trump’s tenure as perhaps no other book has.

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