Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs

A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America—from the acclaimed author of Thrown "Riveting and darkly funny and, in all senses of the word, unclassifiable… Howley's extraordinary book feels both startling and inevitable." —Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times

Who are you? You are data about data. You are a map of connections—a culmination of everything you have ever posted, searched, emailed, liked, and followed. In this groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction, Kerry Howley investigates the curious implications of living in the age of the indelible. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs tells the true story of intelligence specialist Reality Winner, a lone young woman who stuffs a state secret under her skirt and trusts the wrong people to help. After printing five pages of dangerous information she was never supposed to see, Winner finds herself at the mercy of forces more invasive than she…