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Brunch Is Hell: How to Save the World by Throwing a Dinner Party Audiobook, by Brendan Francis Newnam Play Audiobook Sample

Brunch Is Hell: How to Save the World by Throwing a Dinner Party Audiobook

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Read By: Brendan Francis Newnam, Rico Gagliano Publisher: Little, Brown & Company Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 3.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: December 2017 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781478985426

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

10

Longest Chapter Length:

53:50 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

04:40 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

27:05 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

A call to arms against BRUNCH . . . and a how-to guide for fighting back, from the hosts of the hit podcast and public radio show The Dinner Party Download

Society is under threat. The culprit? BRUNCH. Not merely a forum for overpriced eggs, brunch is a leisure-time-squandering hellscape, embodying all that is soul-killing and alienating about modern life.

How to fight back? By throwing dinner parties -- the cornerstone of civilized society! Dinner parties -- where friends new and old share food, debate ideas, and boldly build hangovers together. If we revive the fading art of throwing dinner parties the world will be better off, and our country might heal its wounds of endless division, all without having to wait in a 9-hour line to eat toast.

To that end, Brunch is Hell takes hesitant hosts through every phase of throwing a great dinner party, from guest list to subpoena. Loaded with wit, celebrity advice, and tongue-in-cheek humor -- plus sincere insights about how humans can be more generous to each other -- Brunch is Hell is a spirited guide to restoring civility, in the bestselling tradition of Adulting, Amy Sedaris' I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, and the Bible.

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“Our fearless heroes offer a book full of the secret thoughts we all harbor about entertaining. It’s social venting with real solutions—read: advice you’d want to use—and a heavy helping of humor.”

— Lizzie Post, author of Emily Post’s Etiquette, 19th edition

Quotes

  • “Equally informative, impassioned, and hilarious, Gagliano and Newnam rescue the dinner party from the dark forces of brunch with great verve and valor.”

    — J. Ryan Stradal, New York Times bestselling author
  • A spirited call to arms against brunch, with unexpected reasons for throwing a dinner party... the humorous guide hand-holds hesitant hosts through every phase.

    — Furthermore
  • Equally informative, impassioned, and hilarious, Gagliano and Newnam rescue the dinner party from the dark forces of brunch with great verve and valor.

    — J. Ryan Stradal, New York Times bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest
  • Our fearless heroes offer a book full of the secret thoughts we all harbor about entertaining. It's social venting with real solutions--read: advice you'd WANT to use--and a heavy helping of humor.

    — Lizzie Post, author of Emily Post's Etiquette, 19th edition
  • These guys are good.

    — Dick Cavett
  • The icebreaker that helped public radio loosen up.

    — Los Angeles Times
  • This podcast has become our secret weapon at parties and events where we know there will be a lot of mingling.

    — Apartment Therapy
  • Fascinating.

    — Goop

Awards

  • An Amazon Best Book of the Month

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About the Authors

Brendan Francis Newnam and Rico Gagliano are the creators, hosts, and producers of The Dinner Party Download. They were named two of Food & Wine’s “Forty Big Food Thinkers Forty and Under,” and have appeared as judges on Top Chef Masters.

Brendan Francis Newnam and Rico Gagliano are the creators, hosts, and producers of The Dinner Party Download. They were named two of Food & Wine’s “Forty Big Food Thinkers Forty and Under,” and have appeared as judges on Top Chef Masters.