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#MeAsWell, A Novel
Paperback
Publisher Price: $15.95
ISBN13: 9781950154098
Publisher: Sager Group LLC
Published: Sep 19 2019
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Arnie Pepper is having the worst day of his life. The Pulitzer-prize winning sports columnist for the Washington Post has lived a thrilling, prestigious and (mostly) blameless existence over nearly four decades of rubbing shoulders with athletic royalty at all the most prestigious sporting events of our times. Then one day, within the confines of an impromptu gathering of fellow reporters, he tosses out a characteristic one-liner. Overheard and subsequently posted on social media, his joke goes viral. The ensuing hurricane of condemnation threatens to take his job and reputation, alienate his daughter, and decimate his obsessively observed inner world.
#MeAsWell is the second novel from Peter Mehlman, an essayist, artist, comic, filmmaker, and longtime writer/producer for the iconic television show Seinfeld. At once surreal and too real, laughable and on point, the novel examines the inner and outer turmoil that results when a well-meaning but iconoclastic public figure, having failed to update his cultural operating system, unwittingly runs afoul of the new rules of woke America.
In everyday interactions, and especially in his popular columns, Pepper's sense of humor has always been his fortune--the gateway to a comfortable life as a journalist and enriching friendships with everyone from Billy Jean King to Barack Obama. An early proponent of Title IX-and a devoted single father of a daughter-Pepper has long been a champion of women's sport. But now, despite his best intentions, he finds himself in the eye of a media storm that is turning darker and more dangerous, his life threatened by a hilarious retort--or at least it seemed hilarious at the time.
Early Praise for #MeAsWell, A Novel
Mehlman's narrative is spirited, political, and both hilarious and sadly reflective of the digital culture that can befriend or betray on a whim. A witty, culturally perceptive dark comedy.-Kirkus Reviews
Praise for Mehlman's first novel, It Won't Always Be This Great
It turns out that not only can Peter Mehlman write funny television, he can write a funny book. Who knew?-Julia Louis-Dreyfus, star of Veep and Seinfeld
Anyone who writes for television gets frustrated that they can't write like Peter Mehlman. Now he's going to make novelists mad too. Mehlman's writing style is completely unique and creates an intimate bond between the narrator and the reader. You finish the book feeling as though you've made a new friend. - Aaron Sorkin, Academy and Emmy-award winning screenwriter, producer, and playwright, whose works include A Few Good Men, The West Wing, The Social Network, and The Newsroom
Equal parts moral dilemma, subtle social commentary, and journey of self-discovery, Mehlman's tale of a man forced outside the comfort zone of his 'respectable, decent, low-impact, relaxed-fit, gluten-free world' is both laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving. -Publishers Weekly
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