Welcome to Hell World

When Luke ONeil isnt angry, hes asleep. When hes awake, he gives vent to some of the most heartfelt, political and anger-fueled prose to power its way to the public sphere since Hunter S. Thompson smashed a typewriters keys. Welcome to Hell World is an unexpurgated selection of Luke ONeils finest rants, near-poetic rhapsodies, and investigatory journalism. Racism, sexism, immigration, unemployment, Marcus Aurelius, opioid addiction, Iraq: all are processed through the ONeil grinder. He details failings in his own life and in those he observes around him: and the result is a book that is at once intensely confessional and an energetic, unforgettable condemnation of American mores. Welcome to Hell World is, in the authors words, a fever dream nightmare of reporting and personal essays from one of the lowest periods in our country in recent memory. It is also a burning example of some of the best writing youre likely to read anywhere.