Jeff, One Lonely Guy

Name: Jeff, One Lonely Guy
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jeff Ragsdale
ISBN: 9781469205496

Author: Jeff Ragsdale, David Shields, Michael Logan

Narrator: Jeff Ragsdale

Unabridged: 3 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 06/05/2012

Categories: Nonfiction, Social Science, Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs

Synopsis

In October 2011, Jeff Ragsdale, a down-and-out actor and stand-up comedian, posted a flyer around Lower Manhattan, asking people to call him if they wanted to talk. He thought he’d get a dozen calls; instead, he got hundreds, then thousands once pictures of the flyer went viral on the net. They came from all over the country and from as far away as Spain, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Taiwan, and Australia. Jeff spoke to as many people as he could, answering his phone all day long. Here are the conversations, texts, and voicemails of a particular moment in time—a hilarious, dark, intimate portrait of the way we live now.

About David Shields

David Shields is the author of 11 previous books, including Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, named one of the best books of 2010 by more than 30 publications, and The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead, a New York Times bestseller. His work has been translated into 15 languages.

About Michael Logan

This is Michael Logan’s first book. Excerpts from his book-in-progress, a work of nonfiction, have appeared in Conjunctions.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nate on June 02, 2012

Very interesting. Got it as a gift for my birthday but it's still a pretty cheap book. I'm here like lots of other people because BEE talked about. At times it reads like a Twitter feed. Other times it feels like a therapist's office. I liked the disjointed fragmented nature of it because often time......more

Quotes

“[Jeff’s] crazy idea actually worked.” —The Oprah Blog“You can either make fun of Jeff, One Lonely Guy (it would be very easy to parody) and reject its self-help earnestness or you can respond as I did: transported by a healing work of art despite (or because of) the enormous amount of pain surging through it. The symphony of voices here is an overwhelming reading experience. This short book is also a verification of a legitimate new form of narrative; it’s the definitive document so far of where our medium is heading. I’ve never read anything like it.” —Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho“OMG I love this!! It’s so Russian—very reminiscent of the Chekhov story “Complaint Book” (entries in a complaint book at the railway station).” —Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed