How to Piss in Public: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood is the 2012 autobiography of the British-Canadian media personality Gavin McInnes. It has also been published as The Death of Cool.[1]
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| Author | Gavin McInnes |
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| Original title | The Death of Cool |
| Language | English |
| Genre | memoir |
| Publisher | Scribner |
Publication date | 2012 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 271 |
| ISBN | 978-1-4516-1417-6 |
Summary
editGavin McInnes envisioned the book as a collection of his best bar stories. It consists of 41 stories from his life arranged in a three-act structure. He grew up in small-town Canada and tells stories of how he took drugs, was drunk and played in a punk band. As a young man, he moved to Montreal and co-founded the magazine Vice, which he sold for a large sum of money when it became successful. Much of the book consists of McInnes' anecdotes about intoxication, sex and violence. The latter part of the book is about how he met his wife and became a father.[2][3]
Reception
editCaitlin Stall-Paquet of Paste wrote that the book reveals "the infuriating man-child within this punk-rocker-writer-hipster-king", and yet manages to be "an exciting, continuously forward-moving narrative".[4] Kirkus Reviews called it "a monumentally unfunny memoir of being a jerk", and wrote that it seems like McInnes wants to write like Hunter S. Thompson but lacks Thompson's "inspired lunacy".[3]
References
edit- ^ Harding, Michael-Oliver (14 March 2012). "Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes on Montreal junkies, Fox News and the death of cool". Nightlife.ca. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
- ^ Kaplan, Ben (2 April 2012). "Gavin McInnes's How to Piss in Public details 'a hoser's life'". National Post. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
- ^ a b "How to Piss in Public". Kirkus Reviews. 1 February 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
- ^ Stall-Paquet, Caitlin (19 June 2012). "How to Piss in Public by Gavin McInnes". Paste. Retrieved 20 October 2023.