Jon Methven

This Is Your Captain Speaking

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Produktbeschreibung

In the vein of Christopher Buckley and Gary Shteyngart, Methven reimagines a miraculous plane landing as a PR stunt in this biting, hilarious satire on the culture of hero worship and celebrity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 547g
• ISBN-13: 9781451642155
• ISBN-10: 1451642156
• Artikelnr.: 34458573

Autorenporträt

Jon Methven has worked as a paperboy, a dishwasher, a Ponderosa meat cook (everything medium well), a pizza deliverer, a golf course grounds crewman, a barbecue seasoning filter employee, an illegal barbecue seasoning filter employee since he was living in Australia without a work visa at the time, a bartender, a mascot at Yankee Stadium (Mr. Popcorn), a journalist, a taste tester, and a cubicle dweller. He knows things you can only dream of knowing, or can learn if willing to work for minimum wage. His work has appeared at Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, n+1, The New York Times , and New York magazine, and he currently writes the “Analytically Speaking” column that appears Mondays at The Awl. He lives in New York City with his wife and son.