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So Sad Today: Personal Essays

So Sad Today: Personal Essays

Broder, Melissa

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Biographies GeneralLetters & EssaysMental Health

ISBN10: 1455562726
ISBN13: 9781455562725
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: Mar 15 2016
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
These essays are sad and uncomfortable and their own kind of gorgeous. They reveal so much about what it is to live in this world, right now. --Roxane Gay, New York Times-bestselling author of Bad Feminist

From acclaimed poet and creator of the popular twitter account @SoSadToday comes a brutally honest collection of essays at once devastating and delightful . . . as raw as it is funny (Cosmopolitan).

Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months. So she began @sosadtoday, an anonymous Twitter feed that allowed her to express her darkest feelings, and which quickly gained a dedicated following. In So Sad Today, Broder delves deeper into the existential themes she explores on Twitter, grappling with sex, death, love low self-esteem, addiction, and the drama of waiting for the universe to text you back.

With insights as sharp as her humor, Broder explores--in prose that is both ballsy and beautiful, aggressively colloquial and achingly poetic--questions most of us are afraid to even acknowledge, let alone answer, in order to discover what it really means to be a person in this modern world.



If her Twitter account is a darkly comic 'creative way to distract myself and cope, ' . . . [Broder's] essays are deeper excavations of that same mind. --Elle

[Broder] has a near-supernatural ability to not only lay bare her darkest secrets, but to festoon those secrets with jokes, subterfuge, deep shame, bravado, and poetic turns of phrase. --New York Magazine

Melissa Broder is undoubtedly one of the best essay stylists at work today. --Ploughshares

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