Bertram's Emporium of Things People Say - Ariel Peckel

Bertram's Emporium of Things People Say

By: Ariel Peckel

Paperback | 5 November 2024

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"A wild philosophical ride that is as funny as it is timely and as mind expanding as it is mind bending." Daria Sommers, award-winning director, writer and producer

Step into the twisted corridors of Bertram's Emporium, where the mundane meets the macabre in a carnival of unrestrained wit and biting satire.

In the madness of contemporary culture wars, the Emporium serves no ideology. It serves up iconoclasm. From hillbilly erotic philosophy to a cancel rag that declares the Sun triggering, from The Pronoun Simulator to The Abortion Avatar, from neocon unicorn princess to Antifa blackshirt, no extreme of the ideological spectrum is too self-absurd to spare. On one end, the far-right's demands for freedom from sweeping government powers evaporate the moment their own sacred cows of religious education and fetuses are at stake. On the other, militant gender identity ideology undermines the rights of the very people it patronizingly claims to protect, with dangerous implications for women, trans people, and detransitioners. On the whole, the absurdity of those ideologies is on plain display to those residing between the extremes who long for a more reasoned approach. Bertram's Emporium delivers one in the guise of humorist social commentary vignettes. It also delivers purely comedic pieces at a time when everybody can use a laugh.

Welcome to the Emporium.

Industry Reviews

"Poking fun at the modern world has never been so much fun. A satirical gem!" The Wishing Shelf

"Brilliant!" Alycia Vreeland, Author of Baby Darlin'

"We all need to see ourselves in the mirror, so we don't take ourselves too seriously. Get up to speed with this comment on our times - and for a good laugh." Rusty Allen, author of Ella's War

"A sharply observed, irreverent look at the issues dominating our discourse. A wild philosophical ride that is as funny as it is timely and as mind expanding as it is mind bending." Daria Sommers, award-winning director, writer and producer

"Zany and off-the-wall imaginative, Bertram's Emporium of Things People Say fires fast-paced jabs at the excesses of 21st century cancel culture, militant ideology, and alternative facts, with plenty of plain ol' fun thrown in for good measure." Ian M. Rogers, author of MFA Thesis Novel

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