Word Salad

Word Salad

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I'm a bestselling author who also wrote speeches and jokes for President Obama. On here, I write about political persuasion, how obscure cultural references explain everything, and how to live courageously when it takes guts just to read the news.

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About David Litt

A former Obama speechwriter and joke writer, David Litt is the New York Times bestselling author of Thanks, Obama and Democracy in One Book or Less. His next book, It’s Only Drowning, will be published on June 24, and his newsletter is “Word Salad.”