No One Asked For This, Cazzie David
No One Asked For This, Cazzie David
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No One Asked For This
Essays

Author: Cazzie David

Narrator: Cazzie David, Gabra Zackman, James Langton

Unabridged: 7 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 11/17/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Humor, Art


Synopsis

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From writer/director Cazzie David comes a series of acerbic, darkly funny essays about anxiety, social media, misanthropy, and growing up in a wildly eccentric family.
For Cazzie David, the world is one big trap door leading to death and despair and social phobia. From shame spirals caused by hookups to panic attacks about being alive and everyone else having to be alive too, David chronicles her life’s most chaotic moments with wit, bleak humor, and a mega-dose of self-awareness.
In No One Asked for This, David provides readers with a singular but ultimately relatable tour through her mind, as she explores existential anxiety, family dynamics, and the utterly modern dilemma of having your breakup displayed on the Internet. With pitch-black humor resonant of her father, comedy legend Larry David, and topics that speak uniquely to generational malaise, No One Asked for This is the perfect companion for when you don’t really want a companion.
""Blisteringly honest...kind of like if a David Sedaris book was written by an anxiety-ridden millennial who grew up in Hollywood.""—Entertainment Weekly
""Cazzie David is the delicious antidote to the poison of basic influencer culture. This book will make all misanthropes feel seen and loved—well, seen and tolerated.""—Diablo Cody, screenwriter and author of Candy Girl

About Cazzie David

CAZZIE DAVID is the creator, writer, and star of the critically acclaimed web series Eighty-Sixed. She is a columnist at Graydon Carter’s Air Mail and has written for Vanity Fair, the Hollywood Reporter, Glamour, InStyle, and Vogue.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Isabella on November 20, 2020

i can’t believe people are so mad about this book... maybe it’s bc i would also rather die than throw up and also am constantly haunted by knowing the people i love will die someday but i felt seen and so entertained by this. and people calling her out for the pete davidson essay specifically? what......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on December 26, 2020

About a month ago I read an interview with Cazzie David about her breakup with Pete Davidson. I could not for a million dollars tell you why I clicked on that article, having no emotional investment in either of these people, but here we are. I was struck by two things: how resonant I found the way......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader on January 04, 2021

A friend of mine once told me that it’s best to have a book of essays or short stories on your nightstand. That way, when you can’t sleep, you can easily find something to read in a bite-sized amount. That’s just where I’ve had Cazzie David’s debut. Daughter of a celebrity, Cazzie’s essays are brutal......more

Goodreads review by Ella on November 25, 2020

It’s unclear whether Cazzie David actually wants anybody to read her debut essay collection. For starters, it’s called No One Asked for This. “I regret every word I’ve ever said out loud,” the 26-year-old writes in the book’s introduction. In the second of three chapters titled “Tweets I Would Tweet......more

Goodreads review by Patricia on November 28, 2020

Do not read this book if you are not a sensitive person, honestly you won’t like it.If you read the essays and still talk trash, clearly you are failing as a human being, compassion and understanding for what you are reading may be more important than the structure of the sentence. The emotion behin......more