Midwestern Death Trip

Meaghan Garvey's Midwestern Death Trip is part memoir, part gonzo reportage, in which the great American road trip meets an unsparing coming-of-age story. Estranged in the most misunderstood part of the country, Garvey navigates her blood-red Cadillac around the Midwest to chronicle her itinerant personal life amid a landscape of forgotten ghosts and backwoods bar tops.

Chicago writer Meaghan Garvey has made her bones as one of America's funniest and most astute music critics in her profiles and essays for The New York Times, Billboard, New York Magazine, County Highway, Pitchfork, and GQ . Meanwhile, her dark, unsparing, and wildly popular substack Scary Cool Sad Goodbye chronicles an itinerant personal life that reads like Thelma and Louise written by a female Hunter Thompson.