John Hodgman | Vacationland
Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn’t seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now.
Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth: John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair, wandering like a privileged Sasquatch through three wildernesses: the hills of Western Massachusetts where he spent much of his youth; the painful beaches of Maine that want to kill him (and some day will); and the metaphoric haunted forest of middle age that connects them.
Vacationland collects these real life wanderings, and through them you learn of the horror of freshwater clams, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache, and which animals to keep as pets and which to kill with traps and poison. There is also some advice on how to react when the people of coastal Maine try to sacrifice you to their strange god.
Though wildly, Hodgmaniacally funny as usual, it is also a poignant and sincere account of one human facing his forties, those years when men in particular must stop pretending to be the children of bright potential they were and settle into the failing bodies of the wiser, weird dads that they are.
ABOUT THE EVENT
On Sunday, October 29 at 7PM, John Hodgman will appear in conversation with Chuck Bryant, co-host of Stuff You Should Know podcast, at SCADshow to read from, discuss and sign copies of Vacationland.
This is a ticketed event.
A Cappella Books is the official bookseller for this event.
A Cappella Books is the official bookseller for this event.
If you are unable to attend this event, you may still pre-order a signed copy below.
A Cappella Books has the opportunity to offer a signed limited edition print which will only be available at his book tour events. Limited to twenty prints, designed by Out of Print Clothing, $20.
