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Baratunde R. Thurston ’99, who performed at last weekend’s Black Arts Festival, is far from the typical disgruntled Harvard alum. This former Crimson editor has decided to turn his dissatisfaction into a career, and recently published Better Than Crying, a satirical look at American life...
...What I think is scary about this book is that you don’t know where truth stops and the joke begins,” Thurston says...
Better Than Crying is a collection that includes essays, satires, and even some old Crimson columns. It unites a melee of political commentary and sardonic jeering. Each of the four chapters taps into a different part of the jilted contemporary culture Thurston constructs, and any given page guarantees at least one laughable sentence and a dozen opportunities to take a closer look at the appalling paradox that is the American media...
...painfully obvious, even tragic, that our obsession with "what's next" denies us a full appreciation of the special moments that are happening now? John R. Thurston Eau Claire...
...painfully obvious, even tragic, that our obsession with "what's next" denies us a full appreciation of the special moments that are happening now? JOHN R. THURSTON Eau Claire...