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No one asked for this : essays / Cazzie David.

Title:

No one asked for this :

Author:

David, Cazzie, 1994-

Format:

Books

Physical Description:

xii, 331 pages ; 21 cm

ISBN:

9780358197027

Production / Publication Information:

Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2020]

Contents:

Mean sister -- Do not disturb -- Ex dysmorphia -- Almost pretty -- Is everything gonna be fine? -- Tweets I would tweet if I weren't morally opposed to Twitter: I -- Why God is definitely real -- Too full to fuck -- So embarrassing -- Love you to death -- Insecurity when you're the new girlfriend -- Environ-mental mom -- Tweets I would tweet if I weren't morally opposed to Twitter: II -- Shit-talking etiquette -- My parasite -- Privileged assistant -- I got a cat for my anxiety -- This essay doesn't pass the Bechdel test -- Tweets I would tweet if I weren't morally opposed to Twitter: III -- Moving out -- Erase me -- Thanksgiving.

Summary:

"From writer/director Cazzie David comes a series of acerbic, darkly funny essays about anxiety, social media, misanthropy, and growing up in a wildly eccentric family"--

For David, the world is one big trap door leading to death and despair and social phobia. Here the writer/director chronicles her life's most chaotic moments with wit, bleak humor, and a mega-dose of self-awareness. Her essays create a series of acerbic, darkly funny essays about anxiety, social media, misanthropy, and growing up in a wildly eccentric family. -- adapted from back cover

Language:

English

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Essays.

Personal Subject:

David, Cazzie, 1994-

Subject Term:

Television producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.

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Material Type	Library	Call Number	Item Barcode	Location
Book	Searching... Chelmsford Public Library	ESSAYS/DAVID	31480011419337	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Andover - Memorial Hall Library	814.6 DAV	31330008981858	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Haverhill Public Library	BIOG/DAVID C	31479007420150	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... North Reading - Flint Memorial Library	791.45 DAV	31550002456439	Searching... Unknown

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From writer/director Cazzie David comes a series of acerbic, darkly funny essays about anxiety, social media, misanthropy, and growing up in a wildly eccentric family.

For Cazzie David, the world is one big trap door leading to death and despair and social phobia. From shame spirals caused by hookups to panic attacks about being alive and everyone else having to be alive too, David chronicles her life's most chaotic moments with wit, bleak humor, and a mega-dose of self-awareness.

In No One Asked for This, David provides readers with a singular but ultimately relatable tour through her mind, as she explores existential anxiety, family dynamics, and the utterly modern dilemma of having your breakup displayed on the Internet. With pitch-black humor resonant of her father, comedy legend Larry David, and topics that speak uniquely to generational malaise, No One Asked for This is the perfect companion for when you don't really want a companion.

"Blisteringly honest...kind of like if a David Sedaris book was written by an anxiety-ridden millennial who grew up in Hollywood."--Entertainment Weekly

"Cazzie David is the delicious antidote to the poison of basic influencer culture. This book will make all misanthropes feel seen and loved--well, seen and tolerated."--Diablo Cody, screenwriter and author of Candy Girl

Reviews (2)

Kirkus Review

Dark humor is pushed to its limits in this debut collection of essays. David, the 26-year-old co-creator of the web series "Eighty-Sixed" and daughter of Larry David, mines her anxiety and depression for material in essays that often lean more disconcertingly sad than funny. Several of the pieces are prefaced by excerpts from a 2007 neuropsychological evaluation of the author, and the collection features three sets of "Tweets I Would Tweet If I Weren't Morally Opposed to Twitter," which include "Ways I like to pass time: Think of all the ways I can kill myself without leaving the room I'm currently in," and "The human body is amazing; I can't believe I can have this level of internal anguish and not have imploded yet." While some readers may find these observations sarcastically amusing, others may genuinely worry about the author. Other essays are clever: "I have urban dictionary open and I'm ready to sext"; "What if I just gave in and made my Instagram bio 'Larry David's daughter.' " In the longest piece, David explores a high-profile breakup, documenting her ex's failings as a "cripplingly codependent" individual given to blackouts and self-harm and recording her sorrow during a post-breakup safari trip to South Africa with her family. "I wanted to self-induce a coma and not wake up for years, but even years didn't seem like it would be enough time," she writes. In another selection, the author makes a list of things showing that "God Is Definitely Real," which include puppies and kittens, fruit, coffee, mint, and "alcohol/weed." The majority of David's commentary is more banal than inventive: After getting a cat to ease her anxiety, she got anxious about the cat's inevitable death. She reports that social media can be mind-numbing. She shares her unhappiness about being "almost pretty" and her "self-loathing" about realizing that "my taste in men is straight-up trash." The few amusing bits aren't worth enough to slog through the rest. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Booklist Review

Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm creator Larry David has made a career out of turning neuroses into humor, and his eldest daughter, Cazzie, follows in his footsteps in her first essay collection. Everything in life is a source of anxiety and potential embarrassment for 26-year-old David, from her relationship with her younger sister, Romy, to a night out at a club to her physical appearance to relationships (or lack thereof) with guys. She loathes Twitter but details things she'd share if only she weren't morally opposed to the social media platform. (She does have 277,000 Instagram followers.) She becomes obsessed with home security, living in dread of the possibility of a violent break-in. Even getting a cat proves to be a source of great distress for David when the cat gets out and goes missing for several days. Though David's privilege (which she readily acknowledges) is frequently evident, her frankness about her struggles with anxiety and depression will make many who suffer from the same conditions feel less alone. With a show in development for Amazon, David will be a draw.