So sad today / Melissa Broder
- Bib ID:
- 8037549
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Broder, Melissa, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- [S.l.] : Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, 2016
- Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2016
- 1 online resource.
- ISBN:
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- 1925307468
- 9781925307467
- Summary:
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So sad today? Many are. Melissa Broder is too. How and why did she get to be so sad? And should she stay sad? She asks herself these questions over and over here, turning them into a darkly mesmerising and strangely uplifting reading experience through coruscating honesty and a total lack of self-deceit. Sexually confused, a recovering addict, suffering from an eating disorder and marked by one very strange sex fetish: Broder's life is full of extremes. But from her days working for a Tantric nonprofit in San Francisco to caring for a severely ill husband, there's no subject that Broder is afraid to write about, and no shortage of readers who can relate. When she started an anonymous Twitter feed @sosadtoday to express her darkest feelings, her unflinching frankness and twisted humour soon gained a huge cult following. In its treatment of anxiety, depression, illness, and instability; by its fearless exploration of the author's romantic relationships (romantic is an expanded term in her hands); and with its inventive imagery and deadpan humour, So Sad Today is radical. It is an unapologetic, unblinkingly intimate book that splays out a soul and a prose of unusual beauty. PRAISE FOR MELISSA BRODER 'Broder's essays often left me with a sharp sense of feminine recognition. I would read her accounts of heartbreak, sexual dissatisfaction, and alienation and think, Same ...' The New Yorker 'Her writing ... feels like a friend reaching out and saying "Hey, me too."' i-D.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- Subject:
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- Emotions
- Essays
- Existential psychology
- Online social networks
- Biography & Autobiography - Literary
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY|Literary|
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY|Personal Memoirs|
- Coping with anxiety & phobias
- Dating, relationships, living together & marriage
- Family & Relationships - Marriage
- Family & Relationships / Dating
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Dating
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Marriage & Long Term Relationships
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS|Dating|
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS|Marriage|
- Feminism & feminist theory
- Health & Fitness - Women's Health
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Women's Health
- HEALTH & FITNESS|Women's Health|
- HUMOR -- Form -- Essays
- HUMOR|Essays|
- HUMOR|Form|
- Illness & addiction: social aspects
- Memoirs
- Psychology - Mental Health
- Psychology - Psychopathology - Addiction
- PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHIATRY|Addictions|
- PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHIATRY|Human Sexuality|
- PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHIATRY|Mental Health|
- PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHIATRY|Pathological Psychology|Anxieties & Phobias|
- PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHIATRY|Personality|
- Psychology / Psychopathology / Anxieties & Phobias
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Addiction
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Anxieties & Phobias
- Self-help - Eating Disorders
- SELF-HELP -- Eating Disorders & Body Image
- SELF-HELP|Anxieties & Phobias|
- SELF-HELP|Eating Disorders|
- Sexual behaviour
- Social Science - Feminism & Feminist Theory
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory
- SOCIAL SCIENCE|Disease & Health Issues|
- SOCIAL SCIENCE|Feminism & Feminist Theory|
- The self, ego, identity, personality
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Scribe
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2016
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