Wallflower at the Struggle Session: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles comes an irreverent romp through the sacred spaces of progressivism

As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter, and frequent attendee at her local gay bars, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco neighbors and friends--until she started questioning whether the progressive movement she knew and loved was actually helping people. When her colleagues suggested that asking such questions meant she was ＂on the wrong side of history,＂ Bowles did what any reporter worth her salt would do: she started investigating for herself. The answers she found were stranger--and funnier--than she expected.

In Morning After the Revolution, Bowles gives readers a front-row seat to the absurd drama of a political movement gone mad. With irreverent accounts of attending a multiday course on ＂The Toxic Trends of Whiteness,＂ following the social justice activists who run ＂Abolitionist Entertainment LLC,＂ and trying to please the New York Times’s ＂disinformation czar,＂ she deftly exposes the more comic excesses of a movement that went from a sideshow to the very center of American life.

Deliciously funny and painfully insightful, Morning After the Revolution is a moment of collective psychosis preserved in amber. This is an unmissable debut by one of America’s sharpest journalists.

Nellie Bowles is a journalist writing about business and culture. Previously, she was a tech reporter at the New York Times and a correspondent for VICE News Tonight on HBO. As part of a team, she won the Geral Loeb Award in Investigations and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award for reporting on online predators.