Men's Journal

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“We all know that Christmas is the real culprit here, the true source of the mania, depression, and clinical hysteria.”

—P.J. O’Rourke, from The Dreaded Feast: Writers on Enduring the Holidays ($16), a collection of essays and diatribes — from Mark Twain, Hunter S. Thompson, David Sedaris, Charles Bukowski, and more — that celebrates the Ebenezer Scrooge in each of us.

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This article originally appeared in the December 2009/January 2010 issue of Men’s Journal.

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