Please Scream Inside Your Heart

From the publisher of the NextDraft newsletter comes a cathartic and humorous ride through the unnerving, maddening hellscape of the 2020 press cycle, reestablishing the line between “real” news and real life.

• “I can’t recall a more engaging read.”
  Norman Lear, Television Writer and Producer
• "Buckle up and get ready for a wild ride!  No matter how much you think you know about the most extraordinary year any of us can remember, treat yourself to this smart, funny, compelling and uniquely personal journey through 2020 with one of America’s smartest (and funniest) commentators."
  Andrew Heyward, Former President, CBS News
• "This book is perfectly fantastic and so direly needed. Pell offers up a careful news braid of America 2020—creeping authoritarianism, global pandemic, and racial injustice. But, Please Scream Inside Your Heart isn’t just a romp through our repressed memories of Trumpism, a memoir about the trauma of newsgathering during a media tsunami, or a meditation on our complicated relationship with fame and attention. It’s also a love letter to his own father, and the ordinary people who refuse to accept democracy as something we observe, rather than fight for."
  Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor, Slate, Host of Amicus Podcast
• “Pell combines sharp insights and a wicked wit to bring context to the chaos. Having read Please Scream Inside Your Heart, I now feel I understand what happened in 2020. His is a perfect public voice.  This is how vibrant, memorable history should be written.”
  Phil Bronstein, Center for Investigative Reporting
• "Like his daily newsletter, the book is breezy, funny, outraged, and filled with wordplay. Plus, he remembers all the best Trump quotes. Reading it will make you so grateful this is this year.”
  Harry Shearer, The Simpsons, Le Show, This is Spinal Tap
• "With humor and depth, Scream delivers a brilliant, riveting, Hollywood blockbuster-like ride through the year that transformed all of us. The man appropriately known as 'the managing editor of the Internet' helps us grasp an extraordinary time and make sense of the history we lived through—and that we must never forget."
  Laurie Segall, correspondent 60 Minutes+, co-founder Dot Dot Dot Media
• "Come for the hilarious recounting of the traumas of 2020. Stay for the moving story of an extraordinary family."
  Daniel Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author
• "Pell’s family stories are lucid and heartwarming. Fans of Nextdraft and news junkies with an appreciation for the absurd will savor Pell’s ability to find humor and hope in a year of chaos."
  Publishers Weekly
• "Pell blends in the news with anecdotes from his family which often prove bittersweet....readers who share Pell's left-leaning politics will enjoy the ride."
  Philip Zozzaro, Booklist
• "Pell’s deep and formative connection with his Holocaust-survivor parents proves to be a scene-stealer. In fact, any and all sections in which Pell writes about his father, Joseph Pell, grab my heart and won’t let go."
  San Francisco Chronicle
• “If you have ever wondered: 'Is there a book that will explain the role of technology in our world, and also, in ruining/making wonderful my life?' then, friend, I have got a book from Dave Pell for you."
  Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and New York Times bestselling author of Smarter Faster Better
• "For anyone who knows Dave Pell, the usual adjectives apply—witty, incisive, self-deprecating, poignant. But what defines this first book from the internet's managing editor is its willingness to bare the heart behind a political perspective and to illustrate the process by which a news ninja chooses to engage and understand."
  Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling author
• "Pell, a self-proclaimed 'media Jedi' and the Internet’s Managing Editor, makes [2020] an interesting, revelatory journey down a harrowing memory lane and, if you can believe it, even kind of fun."
  USA Today
• "When I read Dave Pell online, I always wish for more. Here is the answer to my wish and yours: a charming, insightful, touching, funny chronicle of the year from hell by one of the nicest, smartest guys on the whole internet. Buy Please Scream Inside Your Heart as therapy for surviving the roller-coaster ride that was 2020."
  Jeff Jarvis, Director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism
• "Like everything Dave Pell writes, his new book is a great read."
  Dan Pfeiffer, Pod Saves America