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This month marks fifty years since the publication of Myra Breckinridge – perhaps the most madcap of those works he described as “satiric inventions” 
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PJ O’Rourke talks Swift, Huxley, Orwell and Waugh and says we now live in the world of 1984 but, instead of being a horror show, a television that looks back at you is just a pain in the ass
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Political satirist P J O’Rourke has more citations in The Penguin Dictionary of Humorous Quotations than any other living writer. His bestselling books include Parliament of Whores, Give War a Chance, Eat the Rich, The CEO of the Sofa, Peace Kills and On the Wealth of Nations. His latest book, Don’t Vote – It Just Encourages the Bastards, was published this year.
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Swift’s greatness, according to this taxi driver, was that he was “the one who drove the English out”. Well, Swift didn’t do, or want, that.
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Alexandra Schwartz on “Lightning Rods,” Helen DeWitt’s novel, from 2011, that satirizes American corporate culture and sexual politics.
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Samantha Bee begins with Ivanka Trump's repetitions of an invented verb -- “architecting” -- to chart the downward literary trajectory of her new book.
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