In Wright's armoury are seven tales of modern woe; most notable for their comedy is "The Ballad of Fat Josh", about a fat boy in love who has "an appetite for violence and an even bigger one for chips" and "Melody, She Had None", about a star-struck singer who wears her ambition "like double F tits".
But, he writes, the answer to our modern technology woes is not to turn back the clock.
They are something bigger, and darker: a tragic inheritance from his father.I strongly recommend the English-language edition of Kathimerini, the centre-right Greek newspaper, which has run some excellent commentaries throughout this crisis, trying to explain the context of Greece's modern day woes.
There were books on the inception of the Industrial Age, modern society woes, and so much more.
But the differences between those studies in urban dysfunction and modern existential woe are not just temperamental or stylistic.
11.45am BST Tiger's modern-day putting woes may be his undoing again: he three putts 8, missing a short par effort and then spinning his putter like Stevie Nicks twirls her baton in the video for Tusk.
Elderkin says this is one of the most common woes of modern readers, and that it remains a major motivation for her and Berthoud's work as bibliotherapists.
He listened to the story, with all the modern trappings: the academic woes, the high school hopping, the circle of sycophants, the bad advice to turn pro despite no evidence he was high on any team's list.
Now in its third year, the Wainwright nature-writing prize has announced its shortlist, spotlighting what one judge called an "exploding" field, as more and more writers and readers are turning to this genre as a balm for the woes of modern life.
