Dave Eggers and Colin Meloy take on the antagonistic and nativist rhetoric in American politics and culture with children’s literature that is intent on generating empathy.
Readers of Shirley Jackson’s 1948 satire, “The Lottery”, just didn’t get it; over 70 years later, viewers of Bojack Horseman‘s “Thoughts and Prayers” episode just aren’t getting it, either.
>Remember when Bright Eyes’ “When the President Talks to God” and TV on the Radio’s “Dry Drunk Emperor” protested George W. Bush? And when the Internet was full of promise for the best of humankind?
