{"product_id":"9781940450179","title":"More Curious","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom reviews of the hardcover edition:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMore Curious\u003c\/i\u003e begins by making you wonder what kind of book it is, exactly, and ends by reminding you that categories are nonsense when you’re enjoying something this much.”\u003cbr\u003e—Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eA Visit from the Goon Squad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Mr. Wilsey can write in a range of emotional octaves, moving from the comic to the philosophical to the streetwise with ease, while putting body language on his prose to give the reader an almost synesthetic sense of what he’s saying.”\u003cbr\u003e—Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMore Curious\u003c\/i\u003e captures the dizzying absurdity of contemporary America.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sean Wilsey’s witty essays from his cross-country adventures form a portrait of the weird side of contemporary America.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“When Wilsey is at his best, and he often is in \u003ci\u003eMore Curious\u003c\/i\u003e, his prose has a barely contained energy that makes his work both informative and entertaining. And often, whether his subject is rats or NASA or skateboarding or soccer, that work is provocative and huge-hearted.”\u003cbr\u003e—Alex Lemon, \u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sometimes he’s funny and self-deprecating and sometimes he’s somber; sometimes his scope is as sweeping as our country, and other times it’s as narrow as Buzz Aldrin’s taste in wristwatches. There’s one through-line from beginning to end, though: those careful, thoughtful, perfect sentences.”\u003cbr\u003e—Alison Hallett, \u003ci\u003ePortland Mercury\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Generation-defining . . . a welcome chronicle of our age.”\u003cbr\u003e—David Kurlander, \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Bay Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow in paperback, with a bonus essay not included in the hardcover edition, here is Sean Wilsey’s celebrated collection of essays on the glory and misery, the beauty and absurdity of contemporary America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McSweeney's Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044283891952,"sku":"9781940450179","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781940450179_p0.jpg?v=1772805971","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781940450179","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}