Petri will be joined in conversation by comedian Jamie Carbone.Ĭlaire Dederer in Conversation With Casey Parks A witty, absurdist satire of the last 500 years, Petri's "historical fan fiction" shows why she has been hailed as "genius,"* a "national treasure,"** and "one of the funniest writers alive."*** (*Olivia Nuzzi, Katha Pollitt **Julia Ioffe, Katy Tur, John Scalzi, Chuck Wendig, Jamil Smith, and Susan Hennessey *** Randall Munroe). History presents a deranged timeline in which John and Abigail Adams try sexting, the March sisters from Little Women are sixty feet tall, Nicola Tesla's friends stage an intervention when he falls in love with a pigeon, and Susan Sontag goes to summer camp. From the Spanish conquistadors to the Salem witch trials, from Paul Revere's ride to the exclamation mark in Oklahoma!, Alexandra Petri's U.S. Norton) - uses imagined documents to create a laugh-out-loud, irreverent takedown of our nation's complicated past. History: Important American Documents (I Made Up) (W. Her new, side-splitting work of historical humor - Alexandra Petri's U.S. Washington Post humor columnist Alexandra Petri is perhaps America's most beloved political satirist. Monday, May 8 7pm (PT) / Powell’s City of Books Alexandra Petri in Conversation With Jamie Carbone
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