Melissa Broder is a poet who has published four collections of poetry. She is also the creator of the @sosadtoday Twitter persona, which has amassed over 500,000 loyal followers worldwide for its short, sharp, sometimes shocking barbs. She used to work in publishing in New York, and now lives and works in California.
‘If Melissa Broder weren’t so fucking funny I would have wept
through this entire book.’
*Lena Dunham*
‘So Sad Today is desperately honest — Melissa Broder lays herself
bare but she does so with strength, savvy, and style. Sad and
uncomfortable and its own kind of gorgeous. Reveals so much about
what it is to live in this world, right now.’
*Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Bad
Feminist*
‘An utterly bewitching book and … a thrillingly tangible account of
what it is to be a human being, right here, right now. I loved it.
So many staggering — and difficult — observations. So many
beautiful turns of phrase. There aren't many writers who can stare
into the abyss and report back with humour, panache, and a rich,
gutsy spirit. Melissa Broder can. It's a book I'm going to read
again, and talk about, and pass on.’
*Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals*
‘If symptoms could write, they would sound a lot like Melissa
Broder’s So Sad Today. Broder's angst is existential and
pathological and filled with as many holes as there are things to
fill it with. An insight into the perverse persistence of hope and
humanity, even in the age of clickbait and online
individualism.’
*Dr Nina Power, the author of One-Dimensional Woman*
‘What a decadent, hilarious, important, devastating book this is.
So Sad Today will explode on impact in your mind.’
*Jami Attenberg, New York Times bestselling author of The
Middlesteins and Saint Mazie*
‘With irreverence and wit, Melissa Broder confronts the most hidden
and grotesque parts of herself. Reading her, it seems that we're
all fucked-up, but it's because of this that we connect with each
other, fall in love, find contentment, and maybe even a little
happiness.’
*Sarah Gerard, author of Binary Star*
‘Extravagantly intimate … There’s a bleak beauty in the way Broder
articulates her lowest moments.’
*Bookforum*
'Melissa Broder: as raw as an open vein.'
*Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood*
‘From the moment I started this book, I couldn’t put it down —
Melissa Broder GETS IT. This book takes the side effects of mental
illness and makes them funny ... Anyone that is battling with
depression, anxiety, existential dread/crises, or just anyone who
has a brain should read this book.’
*Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast*
‘Irreverent, ballsy, impossible to put down. With courage and
humour, Broder shows us that the underbelly of self-awareness is
the existential sads.’
*Courtney Maum, author of I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without
You*
‘Broder embarks on an earnest, sophisticated inquiry into the roots
and expressions of her own sadness ... [Her] deeply confessional
writing brings disarming humour and self-scrutiny to secrets that
include embarrassing sexual fantasies and her habit of eating a
‘whole pint of diet ice cream with six packets of Equal poured into
it’ ... [The] central insight is clear: it is okay to be sad, and
our problems can’t be reduced to a single diagnosis.’
*Publishers Weekly*
‘Broder fully embraces the peaks and valleys of her emotional
landscape … Vividly rendered and outspokenly delivered …
Compulsively readable.’
*Kirkus*
‘At once devastating and delightful, this deeply personal
collection of essays is as raw as it is funny.’
*Cosmopolitan US*
‘Broder’s essays often left me with a sharp sense of feminine
recognition. I would read her accounts of heartbreak, sexual
dissatisfaction, and alienation and think, Same…’
*NewYorker.com*
‘Broder writes with the kind of honesty that can make you cringe
and laugh, and then catch your breath, brought up short by a kind
of existential dread.’
*Salon.com*
‘Her writing…feels like a friend reaching out and saying “Hey, me
too.”’
*I-D*
‘…Melissa Broder is undoubtedly one of the best essay stylists at
work today…Broder’s writing is funny and sober, her honesty
uncomfortable and comforting, and reading her book is just like
getting a text from your best friend...It’s easy enough to say
that So Sad Today is brutally honest, but there’s a real
kindness to Broder’s honesty, too, the intimacy with which it
beckons a reader’s shy and tender heart. In Broder’s company, we
can dare to tremble at our own depths.’
*Ploughshares*
‘Her poignant (and at times profane) writing remains a wonderful
antidote to a constant stream of other people’s touted successes,
delivered with generosity and without any judgment. This book is
full of dirty secrets, all of which are transformed into something
healing when they reach the light of day…The resulting collection
is both gross and gorgeous, infused with explicit sexuality
(content warning) and visceral ugliness, and often offers a perfect
union of the two.’
*The Globe and Mail*
‘So Sad Today is astonishingly refreshing.’
*Rookie*
‘A rollercoaster ride … Unsettling but compelling.’
*The Jewish Chronicle*
‘[F]unny-sad.’
*The Herald*
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