This Won't Help

Modest Proposals for a More Enjoyable Apocalypse

By: Eli Grober

Narrated by: Eli Grober

Part catharsis, part diagnosis, this divinely wry collection from New Yorker and McSweeney's satirist Eli Grober will strike a chord with those who are dismayed by the chaos of our times. None of it will help—but a few good laughs won't hurt. Probably.

There's a lot going on, all the time. It may feel overwhelming. Don't worry. It will end. This Won't Help is here for you in the meantime—with 100 short, sharp, satirical essays that skewer a world raging with inaction, while maximizing the profits of self-destruction. As if that would help!

Eli Grober's biting, Swiftian prose spares no one—not the megalomaniacal billionaire fleeing Earth for a better life on unlivable Mars, not an extremely online family living completely off-grid, not even a fossil-fuel lobbyist insisting we all stop using straws. (Eli does spare a kind thought for the supremely intelligent listeners with the good sense to buy this book.) Maybe, just maybe, descending through the inferno of our environmental, economic, and political landscape will help us find real solutions to the hypocrisy and dysfunction that surrounds us. But probably not.

©2023 Eli Grober (P)2023 Tantor

Half funny.

The bits that were satirracally funny, were funny m It was just very difficult to carry through a whole book. I'm sure he struggled.

So much fun!

This book was amazing. So funny and a perfect slice of modern life. It was wonderfully narrated by the author. I’d recommend it to anyone who enjoys satire, modern life, or just want a laugh.