What: "The First Female President" is a piece for McSweeney's Internet Tendency from Cara Michelle Smith, author of "I Don't Mean to Be Difficult, But I Really, Really Don't Want to Get Shot."
The piece begins simply, but over its brief length, it quickly ratchets up to a crescendo of righteous indignation (one of my top ten favorite emotions) before a wearily cynical denouement.
Representative quote: "The first female president will insist upon keeping a crocodile in the Lincoln Bathroom’s vintage clawfoot bathtub."
How to get it: "The First Female President" was published in McSweeney's on April 18.
Connections to previous Wreckage: Another recent great piece from McSweeney's is "If Literature's 'Complicated Men' Were on Tinder" (Rec. #461).
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