Rick Bayan

Lifestyles of the Doomed (Bayan's Tirades: Volume 2) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Lifestyles of the Doomed: American Follies & Afflictions at the Turn of the Millennium (Bayan's Tirades, Volume 2) Let the author of "The Cynic's Dictionary" and "Extremely Dark Chocolates" lead you on a bitterly amusing journey back to the turn of the millennium. Bayan, a self-described "kinder, gentler cynic," wrote these seriously funny commentary pieces between 1998 and 2002, as we transitioned from an age of frivolity to an age of terror and disgruntlement. On one side of the divide we had Seinfeld, New Age crystal shops and goat-cheese pizza with arugula; on the other side came the dotcom crash, George W. Bush, 9/11 and worldwide jihad. All the pieces in this lively collection (the second of three projected volumes, each with a different theme) are gathered from Bayan's vintage website, The Cynic's Sanctuary, as well as his syndicated column, "Some Cynical Guy." Contents include "Great Affectations," "Adventures in Downsizing," "The Cynic's Inaugural Address," "Selling Your Soul on eBay," "The Museum of Discarded Names," Fanatics on Parade" and over 40 more essays that, taken together, chronicle the slow-motion cultural shipwreck that ended the yuppie heyday of the '90s. Witty, irreverent, heartfelt and stylishly written, "Lifestyles of the Doomed" will leave you laughing and shaking your head in commiseration. It's the kind of book you'll want to dip into again and again.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rick Bayan
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780991359912
• Artikelnr.: 48759287

Autorenporträt

I was born and raised in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where I enjoyed an idyllic semi-suburban childhood. I graduated from Rutgers with a degree in history, then picked up a master's in journalism from the University of Illinois. At the latter institution I learned little about reporting but discovered the works of classic American curmudgeon H. L. Mencken.

In my twenties I held a number of typical jobs for an idealistic liberal arts graduate, including assistant editor of Rubber Age and managing editor of Container News. At Time-Life Books I was assigned to write about plumbing fixtures. After 18 months of gainful unemployment (during which I burrowed into dozens of great books and saw my first essays published), I survived seven years as chief copywriter at Barron's Educational Series.

In 1985 I moved from New York to Allentown, Pennsylvania. Why? I had taken a job as advertising copy chief at Day-Timers, the original producer of old-fashioned personal organizers. (People still wrote on paper then.) My work there won six advertising awards. In the evenings I crafted my "disgruntled definitions" for The Cynic's Dictionary (Morrow, 1994) on my office computer.

Two years later I created The Cynic's Sanctuary online to promote my book, but the site took on a life of its own with lively message board conversations, my own monthly "tirades" and other fun features. I also wrote a weekly syndicated column, "Some Cynical Guy," for Upbeat Online. One dedicated fan even wrote a screenplay, I, Cynic, based on my writings.

After 14 years at Day-Timers, I called it quits and leaped into the perilous world of freelance writing and creative consulting. As Richard Bayan (my "serious" professional alter ego), I'm the author of the popular advertising thesaurus Words That Sell and its spawn, More Words That Sell, both published by McGraw-Hill. I've also published three collections of humorous essays on Smashwords: Extremely Dark Chocolates, Lifestyles of the Doomed, and The World Is My Obstacle Course.

In 2007 I created The New Moderate (www.newmoderate.com), a blog for "extreme" centrists. I've been interviewed by CNN, Psychology Today, Australia's leading women's magazine and numerous radio and TV shows.

These days you can find me living with my teenage son and a middle-aged cat in a tree-shaded former stable in Philadelphia. I'm a longtime birdwatcher and one of the few people alive who can do a reasonably ...