How to be a Person in the World
Subtitle: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life
By: Heather Havrilesky
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780385540391
Subjects: Self-actualization (Psychology)
Description: "By the author of the popular advice column Ask Polly, featured weekly on New York Magazine's The Cut, this is a collection of brand new, impassioned, and inspiring letters,"--Amazon.com.
Table of contents: title: Author's note; title: Flaws become you. Here comes the (anxious) bride ; My mind likes imagining boys ; The poisons of materialism ; Am I too weird? ; Crushed by an STD; title: You are uniquely qualified to bring you the world. What would Kanye do? ; My boyfriend has never had a job ; Devil town ; Commitmentphobes of N.Y.C.; title: Reckoning, anger, & obsession. The cheat sheet ; I'm tired of being so nice ; The weight of rage ; Cheaters become you ; That bitter aftertaste; title: Weepiness is next to godliness. Drunk no more ; I'm dating my best friend's ex ; How do I get over this betrayal? ; Why don't the men I date ever love me?; title: Identity & becoming an artist (whether you make art or not). Land of the lost artist ; Lame job, lame life ; Do I make music or have a family? ; This job is killing me; title: The uncertainty principle. Making friends (out of nothing at all) ; I'm thirty-eight and everything is awful ; Don't shy away ; I don't know ; Career or baby?; title: Beauty in the breakdown. I feel haunted by my affair ; The good wife ; Full disclosure ; Mourning glory ; The bean eaters.