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The New York Times bestselling author of Generation Kill immerses himself in even more cultures on the edge.
Evan Wright's affinity for outsiders has inspired this deeply personal journey through what he calls "the lost tribes of America." A collection of previously published pieces, Hella Nation delivers provocative accounts of sex workers in Porn Valley, a Hollywood über-agent-turned-war documentarian and hero of America's far right, runaway teens earning corporate dollars as skateboard pitchmen, radical anarchists plotting the overthrow of corporate America, and young American troops on the hunt for terrorists in the combat zones of the Middle East
- Sales Rank: #1504987 in Books
- Published on: 2010-03-02
- Released on: 2010-03-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.90" h x .70" w x 6.10" l, .75 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Rolling Stone writer Wright (Generation Kill), offers 12 tales of outsiders, people more or less living off the grid in mainstream America. He profiles, for example, a member of Delta Company in Kandahar in southeastern Afghanistan dueling with the Taliban; a fun-loving regular at a dance hall; a committed local anarchist engaging in street theater at a global trade conference; a pastor of the Aryan Nation preaching against the evils of blacks and Jews and other nonwhite mud people; and two HIV-infected former porn stars. As a former editor of Hustler magazine, Wright recognizes the magic in Seth Warshavsky, a con man with a mind full of schemes in the porn world of bartered desire. There is some top-drawer writing among weaker essays, but the total effect reflects a literary rebel who wants to break convention. (Apr.)
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From Booklist
Readers of Generation Kill (2004), which recounted Wright’s experiences as an embedded reporter in Iraq, will definitely want to pick up this hugely entertaining book. So will fans of first-person journalism of the sort practiced by Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe. These previously published essays are funny, mesmerizing, frightening, and mind-boggling (sometimes all in the same essay). Wright profiles, among others, an Internet fraudster, an anarchist, a neo-Nazi preacher, an eccentric Hollywood agent turned documentarian, and an ultimate fighter. Wright, who cut his journalistic teeth as the entertainment editor for Hustler, is an engaging storyteller who writes nonfiction with the eye and voice of a novelist. Seemingly—and commendably—uninterested in run-of-the-mill, just-the-facts magazine profiles, Wright instead offers up fully textured portraits of his subjects, detailed pictures in words. He tells us not just what they say, but who they are, and (as much as possible) why they are the way they are. Gonzo journalism lives. --David Pitt
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
The Lost Tribes of America
By Viviane Crystal
What's it like to be the oddball, the type of "out of the box" person or group that most people pretend to admire - from a distance in reality? What makes such folks tick? And whether or not one judges with the terms dysfunctional, weird, strange, etc., etc., shouldn't one understand these outsiders since the world is full of same? Evan Wright, who previously wrote for "The Hustler" magazine and "Rolling Stone" newspaper brings the reader into the world of men and woman who have a very definite but different outlook on the American Dream.
The author introduces the reader to his own evolution from a rebel using drugs to cope with reality into a sober, reflective person seeking to pen his explorations of what he calls a "tour of the Lost Tribes of America. Therefore, the reader is surprised that the opening account concerns American troops serving in Kandahar, a Taliban stronghold in southeastern Afghanistan. The area is a veritable dust storm waiting to happen and one gets an uncensored glimpse into the grinding, tense yet mundane atmosphere these soldiers endure daily, fantasizing and teasing newbies about the happy meals one can get in a nearby village and coping with unremitting sexual tension, fear of being killed and spurts of total inactivity.
The scene then shifts to the world of a professional skateboarder, a daredevil who performs his most dangerous stunts when totally drunk but someone who makes a fortune in this field while claiming to reject most acceptable values and occupations. We continue to meet similar yet different characters, taxi-dance hall girls occupied by would-be fantasy partners, radical protestors with the best of intentions carried out with the most destructive possible means, neo-Nazi groups seriously believing in anti-everything-but-white living, con artists, porn professionals and so much more that defies one's most imaginative moments.
Hella Nation raises more questions than it answers. It stretches the reader's definition from what is acceptable to offer a portrait of men and women who find satisfaction and purpose in unique situations that are rather dark, disturbing, frightening, sometimes funny in a skewed fashion, deceptive, laid back, sacred and profane. In a sense, Hella Nation defies description and in that goal Evan Wright has succeeded in presenting another side of America! The conclusion is yours!
Reviewed by Viviane Crystal on April 9, 2009
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
compelling collection of reports from Americans swimming against the mainstream
By Nicholas Nahat
"Hella Nation" is an essential collection of previously-published essays about the 'other' Americas out there which exist beyond the dominant paradigm, "mainstream" America, and its variations. It's not a particularly pretty picture, which is probably why the mainstream is so mainstream. Wright's best gift is for deadpan description and the selection of telling detail or quote, like:
"This is Mike calling from Cleveland," a voice crackles over the speakers with a queasy, adolescent timbre that brings to mind pimples and a uniform spattered in deep-fryer grease. "I just wanted to say you guys rock!"
These Americas are a bit skewed. Largely, they are all about different white Americas, and, excepting perhaps the San Francisco lawyers, fit neatly in the middle to lower-middle class demographic. But, you write what you know about.
The material is often dated, since the essays have been published previously, some, quite some time ago. It would have been a great strategy to invest some time in 'updates' as to the characters and their projects. As it is, I was curious and invested enough in these stories to do my own legwork on Wikipedia to find out the current fates of UFC champ Tito Ortiz and San Francisco attorney-cum-Aryan Nation prisoner adopter Marjorie Knoller.
The essays are generally tied together with the idea of presenting different sub cultures of America existing outside the mainstream, like neo Nazis or environmental anarchists. However, a few of the stories are just idiosyncratic and lurid, like the Diane Whipple murder, or portrait of the techie con artist Seth Warshavsky.
The stories of many of these characters and incidents can be strangely unsatisfying, perhaps in part because they each lack a coda. Wright is clearly influenced by "Annales" historians, who were "supremely uninterested in arriving at a unified theory of anything." Wright quotes a professor he admired who would say what matters "is the investigation, not the outcome." As such, the essays often just sort of have the effect of describing information, and stopping at a point that is often arbitrary. He takes us on tour with Motley Crue from Cleveland to New York, and then things just stop, as if maybe the per diem bankroll from Rolling Stone just dried up. The mind generally likes a story, and these 'accounts' can be resistant to the usual satisfactions of a beginning, a middle, and an end. Also, although Wright does an admirable good job of generally just letting the (carefully selected) facts speak for themselves, he does sneak in an occasional editorial idea, which can slightly detract from the overall effect.
The most personal essay involves the porn industry, where Wright was an entertainment editor. In a 'just the facts ma'am' manner, he describes his own involvement through anecdotes, in an exercise that sometimes feels like a therapist told him to keep a journal. "The persona had merged with the person, and I found truth in my own mean-spirited Hustler copy." Ultimately, Wright is his own poignant, alternate story, in a compelling collection of like-spirited personalities.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
The Ultimate Cool
By MZ
Hella Nation by Evan Wright
A collection of essays from Rolling Stone and other magazines, the book is about subcultures and social misfits, weird outliers who are fascinating and sometimes frightening in their weirdness. With the courage of a war correspondent, Wright places himself in harm's way to get stories like one about American skinheads; or a Hollywood producer gone over the edge with drugs and rightwing craziness who is just cagey enough to hold onto a few famous contacts; or, most chilling, a story about the intersection of Russian killers and a deadly white-collar criminal. He once worked as an editor at Hustler magazine and writes a hilarious yet sympathetic story about the porn industry with pitch-perfect dialogue. As a top-notch reporter and writer, Wright lets the scenes and people speak for themselves: comical, graphic, and immediate. Even though the stories have been compared to Gonzo journalism, Wright does not inject himself into the story; but renders his subjects with sympathy and objectivity. He comments that the people he covers, far from being society's outcasts, "gravitated to subcultures because they didn't want to participate in the dominant culture."
My favorite piece was the Introduction itself, in which he writes about the impulse behind this book. Wright endured years of alcoholism and substance abuse, but remained a student of the world and an intellectual with a keen and curious mind and a caring soul. "...The more I learned about man's inhumanity to man, the more I was afflicted with intense bouts of sadness, no matter how remote humankind's injustices were in space and time." In his refusal to posture or interject himself in these bold stories, Wright attains the ultimate cool.
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