Dec 23, 2022
Author Michael Lent visits Google to discuss his book "Christmas
Letters from Hell: All The News We Hate from the People We
Love."
Who doesn't love to open the mailbox during the holidays and find a
newsletter? Whether it's a letter from an old college roommate
inadvertently revealing her husband's wandering eye, a
self-congratulatory account of a cousin's rise to power at the
local fast-food joint, or a mind-numbingly detailed account of a
year's medical ailments from a coworker, they're always
entertaining.
"Christmas Letters from Hell" skewers holiday letters of all shapes
and sizes, from the ones that come crammed with cheesy graphics or
written from the perspective of the recently neutered family dog to
those filled with stories of "perfect" family vacations that were
clearly anything but. Here Santa uses his holiday letter to let the
elves know that he'll be outsourcing their roles overseas…effective
immediately; a bipolar mom tells two very different versions of the
year's events; and Osama bin Laden touches base with his high
school host family in Minneapolis.
"Christmas Letters from Hell" serves up a steaming, savory blend of
the holiday cheer, humor, and twisted truth in our well-intended
attempts to stay in touch gone horribly, horribly wrong.
Originally published in December of 2007.
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