How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life
- ISBN-10
- 1101911581
- ISBN-13
- 9781101911587
- Category
- Self-Help
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Author
- Heather Havrilesky
Description
A New York Times Love and Relationships Bestseller A hilarious, frank, and witty collection of all-new responses, plus a few greatest hits, from the author of the beloved advice column "Ask Polly" in New York magazine's The Cut. Should you quit your day job to follow your dreams? How do you rein in an overbearing mother? Will you ever stop dating wishy-washy, noncommittal guys? Should you put off having a baby for your career? Heather Havrilesky of the wildly popular Ask Polly advice column is here to guide you through the "what if's" and "I don't knows" of modern life with the signature wisdom and tough love her readers have come to expect. How to Be a Person in the World is a hilarious, frank, and witty collection of never-before-published material along with a few fan favorites. Whether she's responding to cheaters or loners, lovers or haters, the anxious or the down-and-out, Havrilesky writes with equal parts grace, humor, and compassion to remind you that even in your darkest moments you're not alone.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
How to Be the Best Person in the World
By Tony KearneySecond best isn't something to aspire to be in one's life or indeed achieve.
-
Disaster Preparedness: A Memoir
By Heather HavrileskyDisaster Preparedness charts how the most humiliating and painful moments in Havrilesky's past forced her to develop a wide range of defense mechanisms, some adaptive, some piteously ill-suited to modern life.
-
How to Be a Better Person: 400+ Simple Ways to Make a Difference in Yourself--And the World
By Kate HanleyThis fun, enlightening book features 401 everyday activities to help you become a better person and make a positive impact on the people around you.
-
Simple Courtesies: How to be a Kind Person in a Rude World
By Janet GallantIn the stresses of daily life in the 20th century, 'The Golden Rule' often fades into oblivion. This book attempts to instill new life into 'doing unto others.'
-
It's Hard to Be a Person: Defeating Anxiety, Surviving the World, and Having More Fun
By Brett NewskiI still make fun of my own anxiety and "depresh" as catharsis. I sing about it on tour, talk about it on my podcast, and draw pictures of it here in this book.
-
What If This Were Enough?
By Heather HavrileskyDay in and day out, you are pestered by Barney the Dinosaur, singing about how much everyone loves everyone else and demanding that you turn your frown upside down, in a voice so drippily emphatic that you might like to fashion a shiv ...
-
How to Be a Person: 65 Hugely Useful, Super-Important Skills to Learn before You're Grown Up
By Catherine NewmanThe Stuff You Need to Know to Land on Your Feet Jam-packed with tips, tricks, and skills from best-selling author and advice columnist Catherine Newman, you'll learn how to manage whatever life throws your way.
-
How to Change the World One Person At a Time: Rising From Homo Sapiens to Human Beings
By Christian LassenWe are more than we think we are and we can all get better than we've been. This book will show you how.
-
How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life
By Sheila HetiFacing a creative dilemma after a failed marriage, Sheila gathers inspiration from a depraved and free-spirited artist who becomes her lover, in a tale based on incidents from the author's true life.
-
How to Successfully Offend Every Person in the World
By Daniel DrakeThis is humanity witnessed in its awkward and un-sugarcoated form.