How to Date Men When You Hate Men by Blythe Roberson

Ultimately, Roberson ponders the question: is quitting society and going on the road about enlightenment and liberty - or is it just selfish escapism? Roberson will be joined in conversation by Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State. The result is a laugh-out-loud-while-occasionally-raging-inside travelogue filled with meditations and many, many jokes on ecotourism, conservation, freedom, traffic, climate change, and the structural and financial inequalities that limit so many Americans’ movement. Along the way, she meets new friends on their own personal quests, learns to cope with abstinence while missing the comforts of home, and comes to understand the limits - and possibilities - of going to nature to prove to yourself and your Instagram followers that you are, in fact, free. Borrowing her Midwestern stepfather’s Prius, she heads west to the Loop of mega-popular parks, over to the ocean and down the Pacific Coast Highway, and, in a feat of spectacularly bad timing, through the southwestern desert in the middle of July. But why does it seem like all those canonical travel narratives are written by white men who have no problems, who only decide to go to the desert to see what having problems feels like? To fill in the literary gaps and quench her own sense of adventure, Roberson quits her day job and sets off on a Great American Road Trip to visit America’s national parks.Īmerica the Beautiful? (Harper Perennial) is a hilarious trip into the mind of one of the Millennial generation’s funniest writers. Canonical American travel writers have long celebrated the road trip as the epitome of freedom. From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy philosophy book aimed at interrogating what it means to date men within the trappings of modern society. The following description was submitted by the event organizer.įor writer and comedian Blythe Roberson - author of How to Date Men When You Hate Men - there are only so many Mary Oliver poems you can read about being free, and only so many times you can listen to Joni Mitchell’s travel album Hejira, before you too are itching to take off.

How to Date Men When You Hate Men by Blythe Roberson