{"product_id":"how-to-ruin-everything-essays-9780147515995","title":"How to Ruin Everything: Essays","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFunny, subversive, and able to excavate such brutally honest sentences that you find yourself nodding your head in wonder and recognition. \u003cbr\u003e --Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer and lyricist of \u003ci\u003eIn the Heights\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHamilton: An American Musical\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAre you a sensible, universally competent individual? Are you tired of the crushing monotony of leaping gracefully from one lily pad of success to the next? Are you sick of doing everything right? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this brutally honest and humorous debut, musician and artist George Watsky chronicles the small triumphs over humiliation that make life bearable and how he has come to accept defeat as necessary to personal progress. The essays in \u003ci\u003eHow to Ruin Everything \u003c\/i\u003erange from the absurd (how he became an international ivory smuggler) to the comical (his middle-school rap battle dominance) to the revelatory (his experiences with epilepsy), yet all are delivered with the type of linguistic dexterity and self-awareness that has won Watsky devoted fans across the globe.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAlternately ribald and emotionally resonant, \u003ci\u003eHow to Ruin Everything\u003c\/i\u003e announces a versatile writer with a promising career ahead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-9934666\"\u003eGeorge Watsky\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Plume Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780147515995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0147515998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HUM\"\u003eHumor\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HUM003000\"\u003eForm | Essays\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO026000\"\u003ePersonal Memoirs\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Watsky\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and musician from San Francisco, California. After getting his start as a teenager in competitive poetry slam, winning both the Youth Speaks Slam and Brave New Voices National Poetry Slam at the Apollo Theater, he has since branched out into hip hop and long-form writing. Watsky has performed on HBO's \u003ci\u003eRussell Simmons Presents Def Poetry, \u003c\/i\u003ethe Ellen Show, the NAACP Image Awards, and his online videos have received hundreds of millions of YouTube hits. A committed live performer, he's played hundreds of shows, both with his band and solo, across the North America, Europe, Australia, and India, including festival slots at San Francisco's Outside Lands, Just for Laughs in Montreal, Rock the Bells, Soundset, Warped Tour, and released numerous music albums and mixtapes, including his most recent projects, a track on \"The Hamilton Mixtape\" in 2016, 2013's \"Cardboard Castles\" and 2014's \"All You Can Do. He graduated from Emerson College with a degree in acting and dramatic writing, where he received the Rod Parker playwriting fellowship, and released a poetry collection, \"Undisputed Backtalk Champion,\" on First Word Press way back in 2006. And although he was forced to write a lot essays in school, he considers this his first attempt at prose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plume Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43834735853707,"sku":"9780147515995","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_ef57b543-ee91-4770-a5ff-116430d02e95.jpg?v=1755665232","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/how-to-ruin-everything-essays-9780147515995","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}