Everything Is Horrible

Everything Is Horrible

Joel Osteen Provides Secrets to Godly Success

Via Villanelle

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Noah Berlatsky
Mar 01, 2023
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I’ve been writing villanelles based on the text of various awful books. Why you ask? I don’t know; these things just grab me.

Last week for subscribers I shared one taken from the Da Vinci Code. This week it’s one from Joel Osteen, evangelical grifter. Enjoy! (If that’s the right word.)

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