So Sad Today: Personal Essays

From acclaimed poet and creator of the popular twitter account @SoSadToday comes the darkly funny and brutally honest collection of essays that Roxane Gay called "sad and uncomfortable and their own kind of gorgeous."

Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months. So she began @sosadtoday, an anonymous Twitter feed that allowed her to express her darkest feelings, and which quickly gained a dedicated following. In So Sad Today, Broder delves deeper into the existential themes she explores on Twitter, grappling with sex, death, love low self-esteem, addiction, and the drama of waiting for the universe to text you back.

With insights as sharp as her humor, Broder explores--in prose that is both ballsy and beautiful, aggressively colloquial and achingly poetic--questions most of us are afraid to even acknowledge, let alone answer, in order to discover what it really means to be a person in this modern world.

Author: Melissa Broder
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 03/15/2016
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781455562725


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/01/2016 pg. 75
Publishers Weekly 12/14/2015
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2016

About the Author
Melissa Broder is the author of four collections of poems, including the Last Sext (Tin House, 2016) as well as one novel, The Pisces (Hogarth, 2018). Her poems have appeared in POETRY, Guernica, and the Iowa Review, among other journals. She lives in Venice, California.