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Midwestern Death Trip
Meaghan Garvey's Midwestern Death Trip is part memoir, part gonzo reportage, in which the great American road trip meets an unsparing coming-of-age story. Estranged in the most misunderstood part of the country, Garvey navigates her blood-red Cadillac around the Midwest to chronicle her itinerant personal life amid a landscape of forgotten ghosts and backwoods bar tops.
Chicago writer Meaghan Garvey has made her bones as one of America's funniest and most astute music critics in her profiles and essays for The New York Times, Billboard, New York Magazine, County Highway, Pitchfork, and GQ . Meanwhile, her dark, unsparing, and wildly popular substack Scary Cool Sad Goodbye chronicles an itinerant personal life that reads like Thelma and Louise written by a female Hunter Thompson.
Chicago writer Meaghan Garvey has made her bones as one of America's funniest and most astute music critics in her profiles and essays for The New York Times, Billboard, New York Magazine, County Highway, Pitchfork, and GQ . Meanwhile, her dark, unsparing, and wildly popular substack Scary Cool Sad Goodbye chronicles an itinerant personal life that reads like Thelma and Louise written by a female Hunter Thompson.
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Published May 12, 2026
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May 17, 2026
In an era where well-researched and beautifully-written journalism is particularly hard to find, this book is so refreshing. Garvey's curiosity and unwillingness to settle for half-truths is so clear, and even further illuminated by her thoughtfully lyrical writing. Midwestern Death Trip is the best piece of non-fiction writing I've read in a very long time. A new favorite.
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