Read This to Look Cool: Essays and Overthinkings - Couverture souple

Dunigan, Maeve

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1464220441 ISBN 13 : 9781464220449

Editeur : Sourcebooks, 2026

Synopsis

This book won’t fix you, but imagine how cool you’ll look carrying it around…

Maeve Dunigan has poured a lifetime of effort into seeming effortlessly chill. The results have been … mixed. Nonetheless, Maeve still believes she’s one pair of leather pants, one perfect use of the word “bespoke,” and one jar of expensive olives away from self-actualization. She’ll never stop trying, no matter how bespoke things get (was that right?).

With sharp wit and unflinching honesty, Maeve shares her own misadventures―like the time she quietly endured a ruptured appendix at McDonald’s so she wouldn’t come off as dramatic―and explores the universal desire to belong. She invites readers into her world of One Direction fanfiction authorship and passive-aggressive yogurt mind games, detailing the anxieties that come with living in an age of constant visibility.

Both cringe-inducing and uproarious, Read This To Look Cool is a deeply relatable meditation on the absurdity inherent in the constant performance of ourselves, offering a fresh perspective on self-love and the true meaning of cool. It’s a book that says “I see you” and also “Don’t look at me, though, my hair is doing something weird.”

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Maeve Dunigan is a writer, comedian, and frequent contributor to The New Yorker. Her work has appeared on NPR’s Selected Shorts, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Reductress, Mic, and Mountain Gazette. For more, check out her website: maevedunigan.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sourcebooks
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1464220441
• ISBN 13: 9781464220449
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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