Hello? Neil? Are you out there? We’re sorry for thinking that you’re a paranoid militiaman wannabe. Fine, you want to hear us say it? You were right. Now please come and get us out of here!
Strauss’s recent book, Emergency, chronicles the former New York Times writer’s preparation for the cataclysmic breakdown in civil society, whether from famine, war, economic breakdown or pestilential bacon flu. Although it occasionally suffers from being a bit too self-indulgent, the book does offer many tips on how to go about ducking the apocalypse. We spoke to him a few months ago about how he would get out of certain fictional end-of-days scenarios. His answers can be found here.
