Figuring Shit Out

2014-09-29 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Amy Biancolli
Release : 2014-09-29
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 469/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Figuring Shit Out by : Amy Biancolli

Download or read book Figuring Shit Out written by Amy Biancolli. This book was released on 2014-09-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Your life isn't over." My dad says this. "I mean, YOUR life isn't over. Beyond the kids. You'll go on living, doing things. This isn't it." I know, I assure him. I have the kids. They need me. They're my life now. "OK," he replies, then grunts—more of a brief hum. He only hums when he thinks I'm full of shit. Shockingly single. Amy Biancolli's life went off script more dramatically than most after her husband of twenty years jumped off the roof of a parking garage. Left with three children, a three-story house, and a pile of knotty psychological complications, Amy realizes the flooding dishwasher, dead car battery, rapidly growing lawn, basement sump pump, and broken doorknob aren't going to fix themselves. She also realizes that "figuring shit out" means accepting the horrors that came her way, rolling with them, slogging through them, helping others through theirs, and working her way through life with love and laughter. Amy Biancolli is an author and journalist whose column appears in the Albany Times Union. Before that, Amy served as film critic for the Houston Chronicle where her reviews, published around the country, won her the 2007 Comment and Criticism Award from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association. Biancolli is the author of House of Holy Fools: A Family Portrait in Six Cracked Parts, which earned her Albany Author of the Year. Amy lives in Albany, New York, with her three children.

Write Shit

2021-11-21 Business & Economics

Author : Mark DiMassimo
Release : 2021-11-21
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 639/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Write Shit written by Mark DiMassimo. This book was released on 2021-11-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a jar of prunes for your creative output. In this actively offensive guide, award-winning writer and creative director Mark DiMassimo cuts through the crap to show you how you can really get your best shit down on paper and out into the world. What if the fastest way to a great idea was an insane one? The truth is, bad ideas are often one step removed from brilliant ideas. So having more bad ideas will increase your output of great ideas. Backed by decades of behavioral science research and nearly five decades on the front lines of creative advertising, this rare guide will show you that trying to create a masterpiece is far less effective than trying to produce shit. Since you can't choose how talented to be, choose how prolific you are. The more you write, the more you produce, the better you'll get. The more you work, the faster you'll improve. This isn't just a handbook for those who consider themselves writers either. Write Shit is the tough love pep talk you'd give yourself if you were the best, most potty mouthed creative coach you could be. Don't let your internal editor slow you down. Write faster. Write wronger. Write shit. When you do, you might just find that it's exactly the shit the world's been waiting for.

Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t

2016-06-12 Self-Help

Author : Steven Pressfield
Release : 2016-06-12
Genre : Self-Help
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Book Rating : 506/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t written by Steven Pressfield. This book was released on 2016-06-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a mantra that real writers know but wannabe writers don’t. And the secret phrase is this: NOBODY WANTS TO READ YOUR SH*T. Recognizing this painful truth is the first step in the writer's transformation from amateur to professional. From Chapter Four: “When you understand that nobody wants to read your shit, you develop empathy. You acquire the skill that is indispensable to all artists and entrepreneurs—the ability to switch back and forth in your imagination from your own point of view as writer/painter/seller to the point of view of your reader/gallery-goer/customer. You learn to ask yourself with every sentence and every phrase: Is this interesting? Is it fun or challenging or inventive? Am I giving the reader enough? Is she bored? Is she following where I want to lead her?

Spontaneous

2020-09-08 Young Adult Fiction

Author : Aaron Starmer
Release : 2020-09-08
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 702/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Spontaneous written by Aaron Starmer. This book was released on 2020-09-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a new motion picture starring Katherine Langford, Charlie Plummer, and Hayley Law! “Truly the smartest and funniest book about spontaneous combustion you will ever read.” –John Green, #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars Mara Carlyle’s senior year is going as normally as could be expected, until fellow senior Katelyn Ogden explodes during third period pre-calc. Katelyn is the first, but she won’t be the last teenager to blow up without warning or explanation. As the national eye turns to Mara’s suburban New Jersey hometown, the FBI rolls in and the search for a reason is on. Mara narrates the end of their world as she knows it while trying to make it to graduation in one piece. It’s an explosive year punctuated by romance, quarantine, lifelong friendship, hallucinogenic mushrooms, bloggers, ice cream trucks, and Bon Jovi. Aaron Starmer rewrites the rulebook with Spontaneous. But beneath the outrageous is a ridiculously funny, super honest, and truly moving exemplar of the absurd and raw truths of being a teenager in the 21st century . . . and the heartache of saying goodbye. “Wildly inventive.” –Entertainment Weekly “Must List” “A comically surreal novel that will blow your mind.” –People Magazine

Homesick for Another World

2017-01-17 Fiction

Author : Ottessa Moshfegh
Release : 2017-01-17
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 893/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Homesick for Another World written by Ottessa Moshfegh. This book was released on 2017-01-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time "I can’t recall the last time I laughed this hard at a book. Simultaneously, I’m shocked and scandalized. She’s brilliant, this young woman."—David Sedaris Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. But as many critics noted, Moshfegh is particularly held in awe for her short stories. Homesick for Another World is the rare case where an author's short story collection is if anything more anticipated than her novel. And for good reason. There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though each in very different ways, but they are often tripped up by their own baser impulses and existential insecurities. Homesick for Another World is a master class in the varieties of self-deception across the gamut of individuals representing the human condition. But part of the unique quality of her voice, the echt Moshfeghian experience, is the way the grotesque and the outrageous are infused with tenderness and compassion. Moshfegh is our Flannery O'Connor, and Homesick for Another World is her Everything That Rises Must Converge or A Good Man is Hard to Find. The flesh is weak; the timber is crooked; people are cruel to each other, and stupid, and hurtful. But beauty comes from strange sources. And the dark energy surging through these stories is powerfully invigorating. We're in the hands of an author with a big mind, a big heart, blazing chops, and a political acuity that is needle-sharp. The needle hits the vein before we even feel the prick.

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