I'll Go Home Then, It's Warm and Has Chairs. The Unpublished Emails.

David Thorne’s second collection presents a curated archive of his most infamous electronic correspondences, a genre he has perfected into a form of literary trolling. The book operates as a series of short, epistolary comedies where Thorne, playing the role of a pedantic graphic designer with limitless time and malign creativity, engages unsuspecting clients, coworkers, and corporations in dialogues that spiral into the profoundly absurd. Each chapter is a self-contained battle of wills, typically beginning with a mundane request or minor grievance. Thorne’s methodology involves responding with impeccable, deadpan logic taken to such extreme conclusions that the original premise collapses. Whether debating the fair market value of a missing cat via illustrated charts, offering a detailed treasure map to disable a neighbor’s floodlight, or negotiating a snowboard purchase with fictional gang members, his tactics blend bureaucratic jargon, faux-legalistic reasoning, and sudden leaps into surreal imagery. The book’s structure intersperses these email chains with short autobiographical articles and visual aids, creating a rhythm that oscillates between written performance art and confessional anecdote. It paints a portrait of an anti-hero who views the world’s petty inefficiencies and entitled behaviors not as frustrations, but as raw material for elaborate, retaliatory comedy. Ultimately, the work functions as a satire of modern communication, highlighting how digital facelessness can be leveraged for creative mischief. It targets a specific audience that appreciates dark, cynical humor and recognizes the cathartic fantasy of responding to life’s minor irritants with elaborate, logically indefensible, and brilliantly petty retaliation.