{"product_id":"9780698164420","title":"Will Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation","description":"Adam Resnick, an Emmy Award-winning writer for NBC’s \u003ci\u003eLate Night with David Letterman, \u003c\/i\u003ehas spent his entire life trying to avoid interaction with people. While courageously admitting to being “euphorically antisocial” and “sick in the head,” he allows us to plunge even deeper into his troubled psyche in this unabashedly uproarious memoir-in-essays where we observe Resnick’s committed indifference to family, friends, strangers, and the world at large. His mind shaped by such touchstone events as a traumatic Easter egg hunt when he was six (which solidified his hatred of parties) and overwrought by obsessions, including one with a plastic shopping bag (which solidified his hatred for change), he refuses to be burdened by chores like basic social obligation and personal growth, living instead by his own steadfast rule: “I refuse to do anything I don’t want to do.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCut from a similar (if somewhat stranger) cloth as Albert Brooks or Louis C.K., Resnick is the crazy, miserable bastard you can’t help rooting for, and the brilliant \u003ci\u003eWill Not Attend \u003c\/i\u003eshowcases this seasoned comedy writer at his brazenly hilarious best.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125368897776,"sku":"9780698164420","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780698164420_p0.jpg?v=1763617561","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780698164420","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}