Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride

In the highly personal tradition of Jenny Offill and Elena Ferrante, *Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride* is loosely based on Sweany's tragicomic teenage life growing up in Indiana and his later years working in the New York publishing industry. Hunter S. Thompson biographer William McKeen called it, “ *Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas* meets *Leave It to Beaver*.” And bestselling author Frank Bill adds, “In the vein of David Sedaris or Chuck Palahniuk, Brian Sweany has written a tight satirical story that has you bent over with laughter one moment, then wiping away the tears the next minute.”