People who didn’t win a Nobel Peace Prize

Scott Stein,

Vladimir Putin

Skeletor

Norman Bates

The guy ahead of you in the kindergarten pickup line whose truck has a “Fuck Your Feelings” bumper sticker

Sauron

Hans Gruber

Mussolini

Thanos

The ICE agent who shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball

Anton Chigurh

Stalin

Patrick Bateman

The person who blew up boats full of people off the coast of Venezuela and then joked that no one wants to go fishing anymore

 

Scott Stein

Scott Stein's most recent novels are The Great American Deception, which received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, and The Great American Betrayal, which Vulture.com named one of "The Best Comedy Books of 2022." His older novels are Lost and Mean Martin Manning and his short satire and fiction have been published in The Oxford University Press Humor Reader, McSweeney's,The G.W. Review, Points in Case, Liberty, National Review, and Art Times. He is a professor of English at Drexel University. His author site is scottsteinonline.com and you can find him on Bluesky at sstein.bsky.social.
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