false 4346 1 Dave Eggers, Matt Groening, Ken Burns, and Conan O'Brien agree: <I>The Onion</I>, that scrappy mag ruthlessly satirizing madcap modern life and earnest newspaper journalism, is funnier than reality. <I>Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of the Onion</I> carries on the proud, shameless tradition of <I>Our Dumb Century</I>, which won the 1999 Thurber Prize for American Humor. If a real, dumb newspaper wrote a feature story about hell, you bet its headline would be the boosterish one imagined by the maniacs at the Onion: "Tenth Circle Added to Rapidly Growing Hell." When one reads in this book the headline "Arabs, Israelis Sign 'Screw Peace' Accord," one wonders whether <I>The Onion</I> has not, alas, anticipated the news. Their style of yuks is not for softies: the headline "Loved Ones Recall Local Man's Cowardly Battle with Cancer" may not strike the funny bone of the recently bereaved, but it's a dead-on parody of the sort of sentimental slop that cops major journalism awards in our dumb news era. If you can laugh at the preposterous world around you, and muster the courage to tear down without building up, this book is for you. 8015 4 9 2001 Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of the Onion total:326|5:135|4:146|3:44|2:1|1:0| 326 1393 402 15 3 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Dec 23 09:49:49 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 04 16:41:46 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Sat Apr 11 15:32:03 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 15:35:04 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Oct 04 21:45:31 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 27 21:02:09 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 12 04:29:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 04:32:50 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 05:35:51 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 23:25:15 -0700 2008 Onions that would appear for free on a weekly basis throughout the city. Along with the city's other free paper, The Ithsmus, it was the best newspaper in Madison.

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