Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnut's War Against the Gap, and Other Adventures With the Totally Lost Tribes of Americ

From the award-winning and New York TimesA-bestselling author of Generation Kill, a reporterA's immersion in outsider culturesA-A"His style owes more to Hunter S. Thompson than to any sort of political correctnessA" (Newsday).

From his work as a reporter at Hustler magazine, to his National Magazine AwardA-winning writing for Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair, Evan Wright has always had an affinity for outsidersA-what he calls A"the lost tribes of America.A" The previously published pieces in this collection chart a deeply personal journey, beginning with his stark but sympathetic portrayals of sex workers in Porn Valley, through his raw portrait of a Hollywood A?beragent-turned-war documentarian and hero of AmericaA's far right. Along the way, Wright encounters 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. His subjects are people for whom the American dream is either just out of grasp, or something theyA've chosen to reject altogether. Sometimes frightening, usually profane, and often darkly comic, Hella Nation is Evan WrightA's meticulously observed tour of the jagged edges of all those other Americas hiding in plain sight amid the nationA's malls and gated communities. The collection also includes an all-new, autobiographical introductory essay by the author.

Evan Wright is the New York Times-bestselling author of Generation Kill, recently an HBO miniseries, which he co- wrote. A contributing editor to Vanity Fair, he has also written for Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times, among numerous other publications. He is the recipient of two National Magazine Awards for reporting and profile writing, and for Generation Kill he received a Los Angeles Times Book Award, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, PEN Literary Award, and a General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award.