Catherine Price is an author and science journalist
whose articles and essays have appeared in The Best
American Science Writing, the New York Times, Popular Science,
O, The Oprah Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the San
Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post Magazine, Slate, Parade,
Salon, Men's Journal, Self, Mother
Jones, and Health magazine, among other
publications. Her previous books include Vitamania: How
Vitamins Revolutionized the Way We Think About
Food and 101 Places Not to See Before You Die.
A graduate of Yale and UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism,
she's also a recipient of a Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental
Reporting, a two-time Société de Chimie Industrielle fellow at the
Chemical Heritage Foundation, an ASME nominee, a 2013 resident at
the Mesa Refuge, a fellow in both the Food and Medical Evidence
Boot Camps at the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, and
winner of the Gobind Behari Lal prize for science writing. You can
learn more about her and her work at catherine-price.com.
"The Marie Kondo of brains . . . for the first time in a long time,
I’m starting to feel like a human again."—Kevin Roose, The New York
Times
"A slim, insight-packed volume that's both a primer on the toll
smartphone overuse can take on our mental and physical health, and
a practical manual for a 30-day reset designed to put you on a path
to moderation, this is a book whose message couldn't feel more
timely, or more urgent. (No, really: after finishing the whole
thing in one horrified sitting, I immediately pre-ordered 3 more
copies for friends and family.)"—Sarah Karnasiewicz, Health
"Price dissects the way her phone has impacted her personal and
professional lives, and gives practical advice on how to forge a
healthier relationship with technology—without the fear
mongering."—Refinery29
"The most important book I've read in years. Life-changing."—Sali
Hughes, The Pool
"Could be one of the most important books to be published in recent
times."—9Honey
"A comprehensive, step-by-step solution to spending less time with
your phone and more time doing the things you love."—Booklist
"To design a more joyful life includes reframing some of our
old perceptions and habits. Almost no single thing in modern life
deserves a reframe more than the smartphone. In How To Break
Up with Your Phone, Price offers an accessible and clever way
to accomplish that reframe and discover more time and energy for a
better life." —Dave Evans, coauthor of Designing Your
Life and adjunct lecturer in the Product Design
Program, Stanford University
"Price's book is an invaluable guide of how--in the author's own
words—to turn your phone back into a tool, not a temptation. In
these dopamine-drenched days of the smartphone era, hours can be
lost to the mindless scroll. Price's easily digestible tome is
practical, not preachy, and a must-have for even the worst
phubber." —Pandora Sykes, journalist and former Fashion Features
Editor at The Sunday Times Style
"Fascinating, entertaining and extremely timely. Your phone is an
abusive partner—get rid now."—Will Storr, author of Selfie
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