Watsky - How to Ruin Everything: Essays

Watsky is a skillful lyricist who has successfully transferred his wit, humor, and humility into a smartly written collection of essays. How to Ruin Everything shows off his versatility as a writer and proves that the nerdy guys can also be part of the cool crowd.

Russell Simmons

George Watsky is a lyrical mastermind. Unflinchingly honest, sincere, and gut-wrenchingly funny, How to Ruin Everything is one of the best books Ive read this year. Watsky effortlessly translates his razor-sharp wit from the stage to the page. This will be the first of many amazing books in the life of a tireless artist.

Hasan Minhaj, The Daily Show correspondent

In How To Ruin Everything, George Watsky sets off around the world to find out why nothing ever explodes the way it shouldnot fireworks, spicy foods, hip hop, sex with middle-aged women, or minor criminal activities. Along the way he captures how it feels to be young, in beautiful writing that is compulsively readable, gut-clutchingly funny, and deeply humane. Dont miss it.

Jeff Chang, author Cant Stop Wont Stop, Who We Be, and We Gon Be Alright

At their best, these essays are incisive and soulful, suffused with scorching wit, careful observation, and probing self-awareness. And at their worst, theyre still funnier than anything youre likely to hear at your citys most entertaining bar, even if you drink there every night for a month. Which you might have to, in order to process the fact that a guy who looks like hes twelve just wrote the best debut essay collection of the year.

Adam Mansbach, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Go the F**k to Sleep

He reminds me of myself, only a better writer than I can.

Rhys Darby, Flight of the Conchords

When George Watsky raps, the quantity and quality of his words and concepts often flow so quickly that you can only hope to let them wash over your consciousness and bathe in their essence, because its impossible to stop time and live appreciatively in each individual moment. Thankfully, though, in this collection of his writings, you can do just that, because thats how reading works. You can examine every drop of Watskys kindness, thoughtfulness, self-awareness, curiosity, and adventurousness, seeing how he is continually and/or continuously growing as an artist and a human, and you will, too.

Myq Kaplan, comic featured on Conan, Last Comic Standing, and The Late Show with David Letterman

How to Ruin Everything is laugh-out-loud funny, painfully honest, and subversively sincere. Watsky speaks boundlessly and insightfully about the life of a creative person. It is instantly relatable, clever, sharp, and observant.

Jonny Sun, creator of the popular @jonnysun Twitter comedy account and MIT doctoral candidate

George Watsky does again what he does best: attaches disarming, unparalleled wit to the mundane, making meditation of the routine and human. Everything youve come to expect from Watsky the rapper and George the poet is housed in this brilliant and unmatched collection of essays. His unique approach to rhythm is buoyed by his precision of idea and economy of language.... An instant classic.

Chinaka Hodge, author of Dated Emcees

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Watsky, 1986 author.

Title: How to ruin everything : essays / George Watsky.

Description: New York, New York : Plume, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015048700 (print) | LCCN 2015050851 (ebook) | ISBN

9780147515995 (paperback) | ISBN 9780698191242 (eBook)

Subjects: LCSH: Watsky, 1986Humor. | Poets, AmericanBiography. | Rap

musiciansUnited StatesBiography. | BISAC: HUMOR / Form / Essays. |

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. | HUMOR / General.

Classification: LCC PS3623.A86964 A6 2016 (print) | LCC PS3623.A86964 (ebook)

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