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Shades of Greaves

Carlos Greaves
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Humor and personal essays from New Yorker and McSweeney's contributor Carlos Greaves

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An Open Letter to My Childhood Bookstore

Before I get into it, a reminder that I’ll be chatting with the one and only Amran Gowani tomorrow at 8:00pm ET. It’s gonna be a blast!

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Also, East Coast, Ginny and I are coming your way for book events THIS WEEKEND.

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Thanks to a Generous Donation, the United States Supreme Court Will Be Renamed the Koch Center for Justice

It’s officially pub day!!! Obey in Advance: How to Survive (and Thrive) Under Authoritarianism is available wherever you get your books (more on that later). Like last week, I’m sharing an excerpt from the book today:

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Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz

A photo from the 1953 Iranian coup d’état. More on that later.

The following is an excerpt from my new book, Obey In Advance: How to Survive (and Thrive) Under Authoritarianism (out next Tuesday!), which I co-wrote with the hilarious

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Corruption Has Gotten Way Too Lazy

This used to be a proper country. One where people acknowledged a difference between right and wrong, and agreed that if you wanted to do wrong, you had to do it in a dimly lit backroom full of cigar smoke. Now, when I, Richard Nixon, look...

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    Former electrical engineer turned professional comedy writer fighting the power joyfully. If you're as angry about the state of the world as I am, come have a laugh with me.

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