What I Hate: From A to Z

A hilarious illustrated compendium of pet peeves and personal nightmares from the beloved New Yorker cartoonist and New York Times bestselling author of Cant We Talk About Something More Pleasant? and Going into Town. The pages of the New Yorker are hallowed ground for cartoonists and for the last thirty years Roz Chast has helped set the magazines cartooning standard while creating work that is unmistakably her own- characterized by her shaggy lines an ecstatic way with words and her characters histrionic masks of urban and suburban anxiety bedragglement and elation. What I Hate is an A to Z of epic horrors and daily unpleasantries including but by no means limited to rabies abduction tunnels and the triple-layered terror of Jell-O 1-2-3. With never-before-published full-page cartoons for every letter and supplemental text to make sure the proper fear is instilled in every heart Chasts alphabetical compendium will resonate with anyone well-versed in the art of avoidance- and make an instructive gift for anyone who might be approaching life with unhealthy unconcern.