Deep Down Iola – Peter Mehlman

Then there were her delightfully irrelevant tangents. “My endorphin rush after winning a race is different from what I felt when I formulated breakthrough psychological theories. The old high was all kind of agitated. The runner’s high sends me 30,000 feet into the jet stream.” “One trip to Louisville and you’re making flight references?” “Why not?

I may even join a frequent flyer program.” She bent at the waist, threw her hair down over her face, then snapped it back. Another exotic miracle women blithely perform. “I find myself forgetting you were once a German man.” “I noticed that, Dr. E. I’m glad. You’re totally with me.” Rodney was already wistful at the thought of these research sessions winding down. “I don’t want to jinx it but, I’m getting excited at how good this book could be.” “I have no doubt,” Iola said. “It’ll be totally awesome.”

He looked at her. “Iola, I’m not a rich kid looking over the ledge from five floors up but . . . you kind of saved my life.” “Ditto. You kind of saved my life too.” “The world owed you one. But we don’t have to thank each other, right?” “No.” Sneak attack thunderstorms often strafed Hersey but today’s steady rain was predicted. Willow Mendenhall walked under an FBI cap, a place she dreamed of working after watching too much Criminal Minds.

When drops leaked along the brim and onto her neck, she took off the cap and cranked her face up toward the clouds. She thought: If I’d taken an umbrella, I wouldn’t have seen this. Then: At least I don’t have to do the running this time. She shouted in all directions: “Has anyone seen Iola???” Rodney took a doll from his bottom desk drawer. “Oh my God!” Iola screeched. “A Sigmund Freud action figure!” “I bought it online as inspiration for writing my book.

But I figured you’d like it .

“Mehlman’s narrative is spirited, political, and both hilarious and sadly reflective of the digital culture that can befriend or betray on a whim. A witty, culturally perceptive dark comedy.” —Kirkus Reviews “It takes a certain kind of courage or, rather, daring to write a satirical novel or send-up of the MeToo movement. Comedy in the wake of contemporary cultural progressing towards an intolerance of not just sexual abuse and assault but casual sexism is a difficult vein to mine…#MeAsWell isn’t a perfect novel nor does it need to be.

What it does do is scratch an itch many will have to both blame and exonerate social media and cultural conventions.” —Misanthropester Peter Mehlman’s particular form of satire — playful, a touch neurotic — has earned him a successful career. He was a writer and executive producer on the iconic TV show “Seinfeld,” responsible for some of the show’s most memorable bits and phrases including “double-dipping,” “shrinkage” and “yada yada.”

He has contributed humor pieces to The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Esquire. He’s a stand-up comedian. But, as Mehlman observes — and Arnie Pepper, the Pulitzer- prize winning sports journalist and protagonist of Mehlman’s latest novel “#MeAsWell,” discovers — these are not easy times to be funny.

—The Argonaut It Won’t Always Be This Great: A Novel “It turns out that not only can Peter Mehlman write funny television, he can write a funny book. Who knew?” —Julia Louis-Dreyfus, star of Veep and Seinfeld “Anyone who writes for television gets frustrated that they can’t write like Peter Mehlman. Now he’s going to make novelists mad too. Mehlman’s writing style is completely unique and creates an intimate bond between the narrator and the reader.

You finish the book feeling as though you’ve made a new friend.” —Aaron Sorkin, Academy and Emmy-award winning screenwriter, producer, and playwright, whose works include A Few Good Men, The West Wing, The Social Network, and The Newsroom “Overflowing with humorous, strange, and insightful social observations, the novel is told with Mehlman’s particular sensibility .

. . In a refreshing twist, Mehlman creates a narrator who still loves and respects his wife, Alyse. Even after twenty- four years, he’s still trying to impress her.”

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.

Book Information

• Unique ID: 2cabdde0d452f46f
• File Extension: .pdf
• File Size: 3,161,817 bytes (3.015 MB)
• Title: –
• Author: Unknown
• ISBN: 9781958861882, 9781958861899, 9781958861905
• Pages: 203
• Language: English (en)

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• Estimated Reading Time: 277.07 minutes
• Total Words: 55,415
• Total Characters: 312,343
• Average Words per Page: 272.98
• Average Characters per Page: 1538.64

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