Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems

Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems

A bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess from an award-winning humorist.
Whether David Rakoff's contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good…

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