Little Weirds by Jenny Slate (English) Paperback Book

Description: Little Weirds by Jenny Slate Step into Jenny Slates wild imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling), "delicious" (Amy Sedaris), and "poignant" (John Mulaney) New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- "this book is something new and wonderful" (George Saunders). You may "know" Jenny Slate from her Netflix special, Stage Fright, as the creator of Marcel the Shell, or as the star of "Obvious Child." But you dont really know Jenny Slate until you get bonked on the head by her absolutely singular writing style. To see the world through Jennys eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility. As she will remind you, we live on an ancient ball that rotates around a bigger ball made up of lights and gasses that are science gasses, not farts (dont be immature). Heartbreak, confusion, and misogyny stalk this blue-green sphere, yes, but it is also a place of wild delight and unconstrained vitality, a place where we can start living as soon as we are born, and we can be born at any time. In her dazzling, impossible-to-categorize debut, Jenny channels the pain and beauty of life in writing so fresh, so new, and so burstingly alive, we catch her vision like a fever and bring it back out into the bright day with us, where everything has changed. One of Vanity Fairs Great Quarantine Reads. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Jenny Slate is an actress, stand-up comedian, and the New York Times bestselling author of the childrens book Marcel The Shell with Shoes On. She has been in many movies and TV shows and also plays many cartoon animals. Jenny is a graduate of Columbia University and has a young heart and an antique soul. She lives with her future husband in Massachusetts and California. Review "Little Weirds explores the oddities-and magic-of everyday life...Less an essay collection and more a map of her brain...Little Weirds chattily chronicles Slates highs and lows and dips and swoops as if the actress is absorbing sunshine through an I.V."--MARIE CLAIRE"Little Weirds is full of soft and lovely moments... Slate beautifully evokes the pleasures of female friendship."--NPR.ORG"Little Weirds isnt the typical comedians memoir, but its the rare work of art thats somehow both delightfully bizarre and totally universal."--BUST MAGAZINE"A collection of not quite stories and not quite essays that are somehow more than both...Holding the book together is Slates intelligence and eye for the absurd, which is to say her voice... pure joy for her subtlety, sensitivity, and comic timing...Few books explore self-doubt and loneliness with as much fun or creativity...Jenny Slate very much a writer."--LITERARY HUB"A delight to read. Its a collection of beautiful, hilarious, genuine essays and really is meant for times when you feel heavy. Slate jumps between deeply considering a dead deer on her parents property, to transcribing her borderline surrealist dreams, to poignantly investigating heartache and the forms it takes in such a genuine way I couldnt help but feel that it was written by a friend for me."--VANITY FAIR"A man on the 2 Express Train read some of Jenny Slates Little Weirds over my shoulder. What kind of book is this? he asked. The best kind, I replied."--JOHN MULANEY"A poetic and dreamlike book, a testament to the power of fantasy and language to hit your feelings where facts and pictures cant. . .Slates voice never loses its capacity for strangeness, for finding it in the littlest, weirdest corners. And its this mix of sweet and sadness, real stakes and dreamy prose, that gives this book its soft, sharp, and altogether overwhelming power. Like René Magritte crossed with Lana Del Rey, with strong notes of Patricia Lockwood. Like a carnival ride caught in a tornado, candy-colored shards of metal sparkling in the sky."--TEEN VOGUE"A singularly hilarious and horny, but also poignant and tender, collection of writing that beautifully captures Slates inimitable voice, which is one that, once youve heard it, you want to listen to forever."--NYLON"Across pieces that vary in tone and style, a vulnerable account of losing love and wanting desperately to re-find it emerges. . . This unconventional collection gives true insight into Slate as both an artist and a person."--BOOKLIST (Starred Review)"At once warm, heartbreaking, and erotic...a strange, witty, sad journey into the depths of their authors imagination...devastating in their unfiltered honesty, even optimism...showcasing [Slates] singular poetic forms of expression."--ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY"Both vulnerable and moving, a party even non-party-goers might like to attend."--LIBRARY JOURNAL"Every so often, someone will decide to stray from the outline and gift us with something so unexpected that it may not tickle our funny bone but it might tickle us pink. Jenny Slates nonfiction collection Little Weirds is one such book. Its an extremely personal narrative, and there are elements of humor in it, but that may be all it has in common with the efforts of her peers. . . A collection that relies so heavily on whimsy shouldnt be this effective, but the emotions in it are so raw that delving into her words creates an intimate connection to the work."--AV CLUB"Humorous, whimsical essays about things that are on Jenny Slates mind. With a light touch, she tells us honestly what its like to be her and how she sees the world, one little, weird piece of it at a time."--BOOKRIOT"If you hadnt previously been aware of Slates dexterity as a storyteller, [Little Weirds] will be your awakening...The thing about Jenny Slate is that her warmth doesnt just come from her openness. It also comes from her ability to say, with her whole chest, something others would keep hushed away. Its why shes the receptacle of the stories people are normally too embarrassed to tell. When someone articulates so clearly her own hopes and worries and small shames, it feels like an opening to share your own in return."--IN STYLE"Indescribable, but eminently readable, the actor-comedians book consists of a carnival of observations, ideas and events that may or may not make up a memoir. Basically, Little Weirds is performance art in high-caliber prose."--THE WASHINGTON POST"Jenny Slate is a little weird (in a very good way). Her aptly named collection of personal essays, Little Weirds, gives readers a glimpse into her strangely funny and tender, magically delicious mind...Slates writing style is deeply personal, yet her prose is crisp to the taste."--AMAZON, Editors Choice"Jenny Slate is an artist in the broadest sense of the word. . . . Adjust your expectation of a run-of-the-mill memoir and ready yourself to drop straight into Slates imagination. Her ability to paint a meticulous mental picture with nothing but words on a page can only be described as gifted."--ASSOCIATED PRESS"Jenny Slate, the polymathic actress, writer and comic, presents a delightfully odd assemblage of vignettes whose magical-realist absurdity is a style all her own."--LOS ANGELES TIMES"Jennys writing is wide open, tuneful, tender. She sees the world (and feels the world) like a bug might, two antennae poking out from her head like sensory wands. Reading Little Weirds made me feel tipsy."--DURGA CHEW-BOSE, author of TOO MUCH AND NOT THE MOOD"Luminous, emotional, lovely, and a little mysterious, this book is something you will savor like a half-remembered, gorgeous dream. Youll finish it feeling like Jenny Slate is your new best friend."--SUSAN ORLEAN, author of THE LIBRARY BOOK and THE ORCHID THIEF"Reading Jenny Slates Little Weirds is like digesting Shakespearean sonnets: Its different enough from ordinary English that it takes your brain a few, very-long sentences to adjust to its sweet, flowery prose. But once youve recalibrated, the actress/comedians book becomes a dreamy dessert for the eyeballs that uses playful language to express deep sentiments about heartbreak, anger, wonder and friendship."--USA TODAY"She can act! She can do stand-up! And yes: Jenny Slate can write, too. Slate gets vulnerable in Little Weirds, a memoir that touches on her first marriage, her post-election anxiety, and new beginnings."--REFINERY29"Slate got what most major comedians get -- a book deal -- and the result is wholly original and uniquely hers...She writes in this lyrical, musical, even poetic way. The guardedness typical of the comedian memoir is thus gloriously stripped away... She manages to be whimsical but hilarious but vulnerable."--VULTURE, The 10 Best Comedy Books of 2019"Slate invites us for a glorious swim inside her imagination as she explores romance, heartbreak and self-love in this poetry-memoir-fiction mash-up. Its a work that breaks the mold."--PEOPLE"Slate offers an intimate window into not only her mind, but her heart. The result is a dazzling, sensory gift for poetry lovers and fans of Slates distinctly odd, but deeply charming humor."--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Slate seems to fit so comfortably inside the poetic realms of her impressive imagination that she has no need to abandon them, not even when she is rebuking the pernicious ugliness of male patriarchy, another element that has heavily impacted her life. In one particularly powerful interlude, the author achieves biblical grandeur, envisioning herself ripping out the ancient evil root and stem...A uniquely talented writer and performer offers up an unexpectedly uncommon approach to autobiographical writing."--KIRKUS REVIEWS"Slates voice remains an eccentric and powerful central force as she comments on politics, patriarchy and her personal life."--TIME"The inside of Jenny Slates mind is a fascinating, if unusual, place. In this collage of essays, stories, dreams (both night and day), and pieces that defy easy categorization, the actor and comedian invites readers to pay an extended visit, one that will leave them enlightened, moved and sometimes pleasantly puzzled... a refreshing, original journey."--SHELF AWARENESS"The mind that made you fall in love with a tiny shell hang-gliding on a Dorito does similarly strange, albeit more grown-up work in this collection of essays, which touches on everything from haunted houses to a vagina singing sad old songs."--BUSTLE"The stand-up comedian and actress dips into every nook and cranny of her mind to bring forth original, funny, tender, and above all, magical observations about life."--POPSUGAR"This book is like a stovetop goulash, delicious and varied ingredients, prepared perfectly and excellent with bread...Im sorry, I lost track of the simile."--AMY SEDARIS"This book is something new and wonderful--honest, funny, positive, completely original, and inspiring in the very best way: it made me remember I was alive."--GEORGE SAUNDERS Review Quote "This book is something new and wonderful--honest, funny, positive, completely original, and inspiring in the very best way: it made me remember I was alive."-- GEORGE SAUNDERS Details ISBN0316485365 Pages 240 Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 0316485365 ISBN-13 9780316485364 Format Paperback Imprint Back Bay Books Publication Date 2020-11-24 UK Release Date 2020-11-24 Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2020-11-24 NZ Release Date 2020-11-24 US Release Date 2020-11-24 Publisher Back Bay Books DEWEY 818.607 Audience General Author Jenny Slate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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