Please Scream Inside Your Heart

Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year That Wouldn't End

De: Dave Pell

Narrado por: John Parsons, Peter Coyote, L. J. Ganser, Dave Pell

From the publisher of the NextDraft newsletter comes a cathartic and humorous ride through the unnerving, maddening hellscape of the 2020 press cycle, reestablishing the line between "real" news and real life.

Please lower your shoulder restraint and keep your hands and feet in.

You’re about to board a roller-coaster ride through a year that was at once laughable and lethal.

If you’ve got an anti-anxiety prescription, now would probably be a good time to call in a refill.

Please Scream Inside Your Heart is a time capsule; a real-time ride through the maddening hell that was the 2020 news cycle - when historic turmoil and media mania stretched American sanity, democracy, and toilet paper. Who better to examine this unhinged period in all of its twists and turns than news addict Dave Pell, a.k.a. the internet’s managing editor? Fueled by the wisdom and advice of his two Holocaust-surviving parents, for whom parts of this story were all too familiar, Pell puts the key stories of 2020 into context with pith and punch, highlighting turning points that widened America’s divisions, deepened our obsession with a media-driven civil war, and nearly knocked the country off its tracks.

Pell also examines the role of technology in society - and how we somehow built the exact opposite of what we thought we were building. Why did the lies spread faster than the truth? How did our tech addiction contribute to the nightmare? Why do you feel a vibration in your pocket right now?

In 2020, the news was everywhere, and everything was political - even the air we breathed. So brace yourself as you’re hurtled through the twists and turns of the corkscrewiest year in American history; one that included two impeachment trials, a global pandemic, Black Lives Matter, the biggest election of a lifetime, a slide toward autocracy, and a warning from the makers of Lysol not to drink their products.

©2021 Dave Pell (P)2021 Hachette Go

Reseñas de la Crítica

"This book is perfectly fantastic and so direly needed. Pell offers up a careful news braid of America 2020 - creeping authoritarianism, global pandemic, and racial injustice. But, Please Scream Inside Your Heart isn’t just a romp through our repressed memories of Trumpism, a memoir about the trauma of newsgathering during a media tsunami, or a meditation on our complicated relationship with fame and attention. It’s also a love letter to his own father, and the ordinary people who refuse to accept democracy as something we observe, rather than fight for." (Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor, Slate; host of Amicus podcast)

“Pell combines sharp insights and a wicked wit to bring context to the chaos. Having read Please Scream Inside Your Heart, I now feel I understand what happened in 2020. His is a perfect public voice. This is how vibrant, memorable history should be written.” (Phil Bronstein, Center for Investigative Reporting)

"Like his daily newsletter, the book is breezy, funny, outraged, and filled with wordplay. Plus, he remembers all the best Trump quotes. Reading it will make you so grateful this is this year.” (Harry Shearer, The Simpsons, Le Show, This Is Spinal Tap)

Great

An essential book for understanding the first year. Provides good perspective for future generations.

masterfully written!

Dave Pell's humor and intelligence shine through in this moving mix of news, politics and personal commentary as he looks back on the roller coaster that was 2020. Great listen!!

Couldn’t stop listening!!

I love this book and sending it to my College Freshman to read! Dave Pell’s brilliant style, humor and wit made a horrific year more palatable. How did we live through that?

Wow - and Peter Coyote is an added bonus!! Couldn’t stop listening!