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R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas is the bestselling author of Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and the young adult novel Kings of B’more, a Stonewall Honor book. Both books were also featured as Read with Jenna book club picks on Today. He is a television writer (Apple TV+’s Dickinson, FX’s Better Things), a Lambda Literary Award—winning playwright, and the long-running host of The Moth in Philadelphia. For four years, he was a senior staff writer at ELLE online, where he wrote the popular “Eric Reads the News” column. His latest book is Congratulations, The Best Is Over!.

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  • Congratulations, The Best Is Over!: Essays by R. Eric Thomas

    Congratulations, The Best Is Over!: Essays

    After going viral “reading” the chaotic political news, having one-too-many awkward social encounters, and coming to terms with his intersecting identities, R. Eric Thomas finally knew who he was and where he was going. He was living his best life.

    But then everything changed.

    In this collection of insightful and hilarious essays, Thomas moves back to his perpetually misunderstood hometown of Baltimore (a place he never wanted to return, even to be buried) and behaving completely out of character. They say you can’t go home again, but what if you and home have changed beyond recognition? From attending his twenty-year high school reunion and discovering another person’s face on his name badge, to splattering an urgent care room with blood à la The Shining, to being terrorized by a plague of gay frogs who’ve overtaken his backyard, Thomas provides the nitty, and sometimes the gritty, details of wrestling with the life he thought he’d left behind while trying to establish a new one.

    With wit, heart, and hope for the future, "Congratulations, The Best Is Over!" is the not-so-gentle reminder we all need that even when life doesn’t go according to plan, we can still find our way back home.

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