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“This makes me want to shout 'amen,' call my mom, and punch a goddamn wall . . . if you’ve been looking for the great art that bad times are supposed to bring about, look no further.” —Dave Holmes, Esquire “Enthralling, like finding scraps of poetry in the dust after an apocalypse.” —Mattie Lubchansky, author of Boy’s Weekend and Simplicity “His stories make me feel less insane.” —David Roth “Luke O’Neil is the poet of our shared doom.” —Maria Bustillos “A deeply felt, beautifully crafted collection of stories and essays that capture the times. Not without jolts of much needed humor. Good stuff for bad times.” —Alex Winter, actor and filmmaker “O’Neil's writing is like getting your ribs kicked in by a boot that you can't help but notice is beautiful—its stitching, leatherwork, shining eyelets, lace hooks—all its craftsmanship catching your attention, even as it crunches your bones.” —Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts “What Luke O'Neil knows the answer to is a question both the straight world and the recovery community confronts every day—is anybody actually different from anybody else? And if so, what is addiction? The addict knows that being alive is the disease, a truth that science struggles to accept. We Had It Coming is not about suicide or addiction but the vivid, unmissable struggle of waking up, the only pain we are given, the first and last real gift.” —Sasha Frere-Jones “Reading these stories is like grabbing a beer with your friend who's smarter than you, and funnier than you, and knows way more than you do about how screwed up people are—and yet somehow, on the other side, he's made you feel better about the state of humanity, not worse.” —Rax King “It is easy enough for a bad writer to use a thesaurus; it takes quite a good one to write whole symphonies in plain English…” —Linda Tirado “Luke O’Neil has a degree in Massachusetts Studies and the human spirit. His stories imagine ‘a bill that will soon come due,’ in grief, in the wars we’ve waged on other countries and nature itself. His characters can’t quit smoking or the hope that the bill might still be settled. O’Neil’s stories will make you want to show emotion, even if your family didn’t really do that shit.” —Daisy Alioto ""The stories are hilarious, insightful, devastating—there’s something for every reader who is stuck in the spin cycle of modern life."" —LitHub

PRAISE FOR LUKE O'NEIL'S A CREATURE WANTING FORM ""In these stories, Luke O'Neil tears the heart out of the dying world and makes us give a fuck that it's still beating. ” —Rax King, author of Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer ""Gorgeous, unsettling, infuriating.” —Kim Kelly, author of Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor ""Rendered with a lyricism that seems to be in awe of the world even as they describe its greatest pains and profound injustices."" —Megan Nolan, author of Acts of Desperation ""A beautiful disaster.” —Dave Wedge, New York Times bestselling author and journalist ""One of the few writers who I'll read for the prose alone. "" —Ryan Cooper, editor at The American Prospect and author of How Are You Going to Pay for That? ""I always wanted to know what goes on inside Luke's brain. Then I read this…, and, well, be careful what you wish for.” —Dan Ozzi, author of Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore ""Luke O’Neil is like no other journalist working today, fusing original reporting with memoir and frequently-profane observational humor to create what feels like a new type of truth-telling: precise, fucked-up, infuriating, and, somehow, beautiful. ...This is what it looks like when a gifted writer finds his voice.” —Hamish McKenzie, co-founder of Substack PRAISE FOR LUKE O'NEIL'S WELCOME TO HELL WORLD ""A vital and despairing collection of essays on modern American life.” —Longreads ""Reading ...Hell World is a lot like staring deep into O'Neil's soul, and it's often a pretty dark place."" —Boston Magazine ""Stream-of-consciousness reports that detail the many reasons reasonable people have to be angry right now.” —New York Magazine ""A fever dream ... It's a lot to handle, but it's great."" —InsideHook ""Tells it like it is. ... It's that honesty, along with pure writing ability, creativity, and a heavy helping of empathy, that makes Luke's writing so special.” —The Alternative ""At once scathingly ironic and disarmingly sincere...” —Full Stop Magazine ""Writings on contemporary matters, from politics to music ... should be beautiful but hideous at the same time-and O'Neil scratches that itch for a remarkable 538 pages.” —Dig Boston

PRAISE FOR LUKE O'NEIL'S A CREATURE WANTING FORM ""In these stories, Luke O'Neil tears the heart out of the dying world and makes us give a fuck that it's still beating. ” —Rax King, author of Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer ""Gorgeous, unsettling, infuriating.” —Kim Kelly, author of Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor ""Rendered with a lyricism that seems to be in awe of the world even as they describe its greatest pains and profound injustices."" —Megan Nolan, author of Acts of Desperation ""A beautiful disaster.” —Dave Wedge, New York Times bestselling author and journalist ""One of the few writers who I'll read for the prose alone. "" —Ryan Cooper, editor at The American Prospect and author of How Are You Going to Pay for That? ""I always wanted to know what goes on inside Luke's brain. Then I read this…, and, well, be careful what you wish for.” —Dan Ozzi, author of Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore ""Luke O’Neil is like no other journalist working today, fusing original reporting with memoir and frequently-profane observational humor to create what feels like a new type of truth-telling: precise, fucked-up, infuriating, and, somehow, beautiful. ...This is what it looks like when a gifted writer finds his voice.” —Hamish McKenzie, co-founder of Substack PRAISE FOR LUKE O'NEIL'S WELCOME TO HELL WORLD ""A vital and despairing collection of essays on modern American life.” —Longreads ""Reading ...Hell World is a lot like staring deep into O'Neil's soul, and it's often a pretty dark place."" —Boston Magazine ""Stream-of-consciousness reports that detail the many reasons reasonable people have to be angry right now.” —New York Magazine ""A fever dream ... It's a lot to handle, but it's great."" —InsideHook ""Tells it like it is. ... It's that honesty, along with pure writing ability, creativity, and a heavy helping of empathy, that makes Luke's writing so special.” —The Alternative ""At once scathingly ironic and disarmingly sincere...” —Full Stop Magazine ""Writings on contemporary matters, from politics to music ... should be beautiful but hideous at the same time-and O'Neil scratches that itch for a remarkable 538 pages.” —Dig Boston

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Luke O'Neilhas written forEsquire, New York Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Playboy, Slate, Vice, and many other publications. He is the author ofWelcome to Hell World: Dispatches from the American Dystopia.

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