Hanging Out, Sheila Liming
Hanging Out, Sheila Liming
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Hanging Out
The Radical Power of Killing Time

Author: Sheila Liming

Narrator: Moniqua Plante

Unabridged: 7 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/27/2023


Synopsis

A smart and empowering book about the simple art of hanging out . . . and of taking back our social lives from the deadening whirl of contemporary life.

Almost every day it seems that our world becomes more fractured, more digital, and more chaotic. Sheila Liming has the answer: we need to hang out more.

Starting with the assumption that play is to children as hanging out is to adults, Liming makes a brilliant case for the necessity of unstructured social time as a key element of our cultural vitality. The book asks questions like what is hanging out? why is it important? why do we do it? how do we do it? and examines the various ways we hang out—in groups, online, at parties, at work.

Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time makes an intelligent case for the importance of this most casual of social structures and shows us how just getting together can be a potent act of resistance all on its own.

About Sheila Liming

Sheila Liming is an associate professor at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, where she teaches classes on literature, media, and writing. She is the author of two books, What a Library Means to a Woman and Office, and the editor of a new edition of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence. Her essays have appeared in venues like the Atlantic, McSweeney's, Lapham's Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, and the Point.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alicia on November 04, 2009

Alien & Possum: Hanging Out is an early reader with three short stories about a very unlikely friendship between an alien and a possum. In each story Alien is sad because he is different than Possum and the other creatures in the woods, but Possum cheers him up by showing him the value of being diff......more

Goodreads review by Laura on December 24, 2010

This was a sweet book, I liked the crazy interaction between the two friends. I thought the illustrations were simple and yet sophisticated and I enjoyed reading the story. It reminded me of the books I used to read as a child and had sort of the same feeling as the Frog and Toad books. I would prob......more