Bad Vibes Only: (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)
Hardcover – October 11, 2022
Description
“There may be no nuance on the Internet, but there’s plenty in these 19 funny, bittersweet essays.” — Shelf Awareness “[McInerny’s] wit, vulnerability, and self-deprecation make her an enjoyable companion. Despite the title, this is nothing but a good time.” — Publisher’s Weekly "The way Nora's words can actually make you cry with laughter is a gift." —Samantha Irby, New York Times bestselling author "I laughed myself sick, the barometer for any great book." —Kate Baer, New York Times bestselling author Nora McInerny was voted Most Humorous by the Annunciation Catholic School Class of 1997. Since then, she’s written the bestselling memoirs It’s Okay to Laugh (Crying Is Cool Too )xa0and No Happy Endings , as well as The Hot Young Widows Club and Bad Moms. She hosts the award-winning podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking , has spoken onxa0TED’s mainstage, and has contributed to publications like The New York Times , Time , Slate , and Vox . She is very tall.
Features & Highlights
- NATIONAL BESTSELLER
- From the host of the podcast
- Terrible, Thanks for Asking
- —called “a gift” by
- The New York Times
- —a raw and humorous essay collection in the spirit of Jenny Lawson and Samantha Irby.
- Nora McInerny does
- not
- dance like no one is watching. In fact, she dances like everyone is watching, which is to say, she does not dance at all. A bestselling author and host of the beloved podcast
- Terrible, Thanks for Asking
- , she has captured the hearts of millions with her disarming and earnest approach to discussing grief and loss. Now, with
- Bad Vibes Only
- , she turns her eye on our aggressively, oppressively optimistic culture, our obsession with self-improvement, and what it really means to live authentically in the online age. In essays that revisit her cringey past and anticipate her rapidly approaching, early middle-aged future, McInerny lays bare her own chaos, inviting us to drop the façade of perfection and embrace the truth: that we are all—at best—slightly unhinged. Socrates claimed that the unexamined life is not worth living.
- Bad Vibes Only
- is for people who have taken that dictum a bit too far—the overthinkers, the analyzers, the recovering Girl Bosses, and the burned-out personal brand—reminding us that a life worth living is about more than just “good vibes.”
