The Half King

Half King Folks! Join Half King Reading Series host Glenn Raucher at his new haunt at DeKalb Stage's "The Nook" this coming Monday as he welcomes Ron Purser, the author of "McMindfulness". It's PageTurners' last author event of 2019, but there's much more to come in 2020!

Tomorrow night with PageTurners Reading Series!

Hey, half King Reading Series folks: join the host of the Half King Reading Series, Glenn Raucher, in his new haunt out at DeKalb Stage, in The Nook, as he welcomes Luke O'Neil, the author of "Welcome to Hell World". November 4, 7:00 PM. The Left’s new low. Tucker Carlson ... Luke O’Neil is one of the few writers who faces our grim reality the way it is, and not the way we wish it was. Compiling Hell World is a sin-eater’s task, and we are indebted to him for doing it. Dan Ozzi, co-author of Tranny Luke O’Neil is like no other journalist working today . . . This is what it looks like when a gifted writer finds his voice. Hamish McKenzie, co-founder of Substack O’Neil speaks the way he writes, wired into a permanent state of journalist-brain. Karen Muller, The ARTery, WBUR A widely read, offbeat newsletter. Mike Isaac, The New York Times Luke O’Neil gives vent to some of the most heartfelt, political and anger-fueled prose to power its way to the public sphere since Hunter S. Thompson smashed a typewriter’s keys. Here, in one volume, is an unexpurgated selection of sixty-four of O’Neil’s finest rants, near-poetic rhapsodies, and investigatory journalism. Racism, sexism, immigration, unemployment, Marcus Aurelius, opioid addiction, Iraq: all are processed through the O’Neil grinder. He details failings in his own life and in those he observes around him. The result is a work of nonfiction that is at once intensely confessional and an energetic, unforgettable condemnation of American mores. Welcome to Hell World is, in the author’s words, a fever dream nightmare of reporting and personal essays from one of the lowest periods in our country in recent memory. It is also a burning example of some of the best writing you’re likely to read anywhere. OR Books has taken the unusual step of offering visitors to the site the choice of two Hell World covers: the cliff cover (pictured above) or the eagle cover, as well as a MP3 file of Luke singing his anthem Punch a Nazi in the Face: https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/welcome-to-hell-world Luke O’Neil has written for Esquire, New York Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Playboy, Slate, Vice, and many other publications. A longtime musician, he currently performs in the indie rock band no hope / no harm. A native of Massachusetts, he lives in that state with his wife Michelle.

Hello Half King Reading Series folks! The successor to The HK reading series has three remarkable events coming up at PageTurners Reading Series, at DeKalb Stage's "The Nook", inside DeKalb Market Hall in Brooklyn: Amy Sohn, 10/21: https://www.facebook.com/events/408777029824104/... Luke O'Neil, 11/4: https://www.facebook.com/events/239673710318759/ Ronald Purser, 11/18: https://www.facebook.com/events/2429001270758748/ Please join us there, and if you want to be on the mailing list, email glennraucher AT gmail DOT com.

Hey Half King Reading Series fans: the series lives on, now at DeKalb Stage's "The Nook". And you can still dine before the event, at DeKalb Market Hall! And grab a drink at Understudy, the terrific bar there. But come join us for the same level of author featured for so many years at The Half King. Next event, 9/9 with Donna Freitas and "Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention", a heartbreaking, infuriating, perceptive, and powerful book about stalking, and the systems within which it is allowed to happen.