Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems

A bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excessfrom an award-winning humorist.

WhetherDavid Rakoffis contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good-times-and-chicken-wings populism of Hooters Air; working as a cabana boy at a South Beach hotel; or traveling to a private island off the coast of Belize to watch a soft-core video shootwhere he is provided with his very own personal manservantrarely have greed, vanity, selfishness, and vapidity been so mercilessly skewered. Somewhere along the line, our healthy self-regard has exploded into obliterating narcissism; our manic getting and spending have now become celebrated as moral virtues. Simultaneously a Wildean satireand a plea for a little human decency, Dont Get Too Comfortable shows that far from being bobos in paradise, were in a special circle of gilded-age hell.