I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams

by Mark Dery

Book Overview

From the cultural critic Wired called "provocative and cuttingly humorous" comes a viciously funny, joltingly insightful collection of drive-by critiques of contemporary America where chaos is the new normal. Exploring the darkest corners of the national psyche and the nethermost regions of the self--the gothic, the grotesque, and the carnivalesque--Mark Dery makes sense of the cultural dynamics of the American madhouse early in the twenty-first century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816677735
• ISBN13: 9780816677733
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.5"