By the writer of Attempting Regular and host from the podcast WTF with Marc Maron, The Jerusalem Syndrome is The Gospel according to Maron: a religious memoir of the average hyperintelligent, ultraneurotic, superhip Jewish standup comedian and seeker.

The Jerusalem Syndrome is an authentic psychological phenomenon that often attacks people to the Holy Property_the delusion they are suddenly immediate vessels for the voice of God. Marc Maron seems to have a distinctly American about The Jerusalem Syndrome: MY ENTIRE LIFE as a Reluctant Messiah version from the Jerusalem Symptoms, which has led him on a lifelong search for spiritual significance and revelation in probably the most unlikely of areas.

Maron riffs on Defeat phenomena with its sacred text messages, founded rituals, and prescribed pilgrimages. He spends some time discovering the dark side of points, as his obsessions with cocaine (recognized to Maron as “magic natural powder”), conspiracy ideas, and well-known self-destructive comedians convince him how the gates of hell open beneath LA. As his mission matures, he reveals the religious aspects of Corporate and business America, pontificating on the timeless beauty of the Coca-Cola logo and even going towards the Philip Morris cigarette factory, where the workers puff their own products with a zealot-like fervor. The culmination of Maron’s Jerusalem Syndrome comes during his personal tour of the Holy Property, where, with Sony camcorder glued to his vision socket, he comes face-to-face with his own ambiguous relationship to Judaism and gets to the brink of religious revelation_or could it be nervous breakdown?

Marc Maron offers considerably adapted and expanded his praised one-man present to craft an authentic literary memoir. Whether he’s an authentic prophet or a neurotic clutter, he’ll make you have fun as you issue this is of life.

“Marc Maron is usually blazingly intelligent, rapid-fire, and incredibly funny . A brilliant and relentless screed.” -David Rakoff, writer of Fraud

“Marc Maron is the initial crazy person I’ve ever envied. In his brainiac-memoir-meets-hilarious-travelogue, he shows the ability to tell a story with a fantastic provocative intelligence that’s regrettably distributed by few.” _ Janeane Garofolo, comedian