Lipsyte's latest literary satire has been praised for making misery funny.
Allan deliberately avoids the heartstring-tugging childhood flashbacks that make misery memoirs such as David Pelzer's so phenomenally successful.
There are numerous instances of writers who hunt down the most fantastic entanglements; they make misery their muse, or they try.
It makes "Misery" and the American torture porn that imitated it (chopped feet are now old hat) look like children's birthday party entertainment.
"At the same time, the financial crisis highlighted that the reigning idea of financial value maximisation at the expense of everything else led to the loss of several trillion dollars not at the maximisation of anything other than making misery".
What should you do if you live in a state that makes misery for investors?
There are lots of people whose lives are made a misery by other people.
Movies sometimes seem made for misery, for rivers of tears, stormy skies and third-act woe.
How often do we hear of people's lives being made a misery by the pestiferousness of trolls, when the obvious remedy is to withdraw from whatever social medium the trolls are making their life a misery on.
The Depression had made workers' misery acute, and, for the first time in history, a country, the Soviet Union, was ruled in the name of its workers.
