TALES OF WOE
by JOHN REED
MTV Press, September 2010
TalesOfWoe.com
Sin, suffering, redemption. That’s the movie, that’s the front page news, that’s the story of popular culture—of American culture. A ray of hope. A comeuppance. An all-for-the-best. Makes it easier to deal with the world’s suffering—to know that...
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TALES OF WOE
by JOHN REED
MTV Press, September 2010
TalesOfWoe.com
Sin, suffering, redemption. That’s the movie, that’s the front page news, that’s the story of popular culture—of American culture. A ray of hope. A comeuppance. An all-for-the-best. Makes it easier to deal with the world’s suffering—to know that there’s a reason behind it, that it’ll always work out in the end, that people get what they deserve.
The fact: sometimes people suffer for no reason. No sin, no redemption—just suffering, suffering, suffering.
Tales of Woe compiles today’s most awful narratives of human wretchedness. This is not Hollywood catharsis (someone overcomes something and the viewer is uplifted), this is Greek Catharsis: you watch people suffer horribly, and then feel better about your own life. Tales of Woe tells stories of murder, accident, depravity, cruelty, and senseless unhappiness: and all true.
Get the application for your iPhone, iPod, or iTablet on iTunes, or share your woe with your friends on Facebook.
TalesOfWoe.org
Feel better instantly, as you read and delight in the abject Woes of others. Scroll through the cries into the void, as the Tales of Woe companion app catalogues the despair of humanity.
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