About the book
Carl Hiaasen, a best-selling writer of comic crime fiction, offers a spoof graduation speech that swaps the customary encouragement for a warning. His advice is to assume the worst, a stance he presents as a guard against despair and disillusionment that also leaves room for pleasant surprise: a boss who is good at the job, a politician not on the take, an in-law who never asks for money. Drawings by Roz Chast, winner of the National Book Award, extend his cynical view. The volume follows the format of printed commencement addresses by Anna Quindlen and George Saunders, and it is pitched as a gift for graduates, new hires, newlyweds and anyone just out of prison.
Foundry Group co-founder Brad Feld, a fan of Hiaasen's fiction, picked it up at Explore Booksellers in Aspen and called it cynically wonderful and full of good advice.
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Brad Feld (Co-Founder/Foundry Group)
I started with a short book by Carl Hiaasen. I’m a fan of his fiction, so this caught my eye in Explore Booksellers (the local Aspen bookstore where we always load up whenever we come here.) It was cynically wonderful, and great advice.
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