Humorist Dan Kennedy (McSweeney's, "Loser Goes First") February 28, 2008

Longstanding McSweeneys.net contributor and author of the book "Loser Goes First" reads from his new book "Rock On: an office power ballad" (Algonquin) -- a sophomore outing of his trademark painfully funny cautionary tales of attempting to mingle with the well adjusted. The new book focuses on Kennedy having been hired in 2002 at Atlantic Records in New York... just in time for the demise of the American record business.

"Hilarious." -—Todd Hanson, editor of The Onion: America's Finest News Source

"Dan Kennedy is a very funny human-being and a very funny writer and this is a very funny book. It's also quite subtly wise about the absurdity of life and the dreams we cook up." —Jonathan Ames, author of Wake Up, Sir!

"In Rock On [Kennedy] cements his status as master of the hysterical inner monologue, laying bare the music biz with an effortless, beyond-hip immediacy that is impossible to resist."—Jerry Stahl, author of I, Fatty and Permanent Midnight

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