In this brilliant book, David Thomson tells the story of how we came to make disaster and catastrophe our best friendshow we let terror cocoon and take over our imaginations to avoid seeing the things that really frighten us. Riveting and totally original.Adam Curtis, BBC filmmaker and political journalist
David Thomson is, I think, the best writer on film in our time. He is our most argumentative and trustworthy historian of the screen.Michael Ondaatje, author of The Cats Table
With bracing prose and intensity of feeling, this book will rivet any serious reader concerned about the worldclimate change, COVID, war, and other menaces. A grim but burnished book.Diane Johnson, author of Lorna Mott Comes Home
David Thomsons Disaster Mon Amour is a piñata of literary pleasures: acid thoughts, film lore, historical meditations, and astute observation, especially about the cultures gourmandizing of despair. His high-stepping book is informed, alert, full of fury and fun.John Lahr, author of Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
Any book that takes Laurel and Hardy and Rachel Maddow as prophets of doomand makes you want to see a Laurel and Hardy movie with Rachel Maddow as much as you want to see Laurel and Hardy as guests on her showis going to be read at least twice.Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train
