Read This to Look Cool

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anxieties of modern life
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caring too much
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constant performance
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essay collection
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781464220449
  • Weight: 282g
  • Dimensions: 139 x 209mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Jun 2026
  • Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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This book won’t fix you, but imagine how cool you’ll look carrying it around…

Maeve Dunigan has poured a lifetime of effort into seeming effortlessly chill. The results have been … mixed. Nonetheless, Maeve still believes she’s one pair of leather pants, one perfect use of the word “bespoke,” and one jar of expensive olives away from self-actualization. She’ll never stop trying, no matter how bespoke things get (was that right?).

With sharp wit and unflinching honesty, Maeve shares her own misadventures—like the time she quietly endured a ruptured appendix at McDonald’s so she wouldn’t come off as dramatic—and explores the universal desire to belong. She invites readers into her world of One Direction fanfiction authorship and passive-aggressive yogurt mind games, detailing the anxieties that come with living in an age of constant visibility.

Both cringe-inducing and uproarious, Read This To Look Cool is a deeply relatable meditation on the absurdity inherent in the constant performance of ourselves, offering a fresh perspective on self-love and the true meaning of cool. It’s a book that says “I see you” and also “Don’t look at me, though, my hair is doing something weird.”

Maeve Dunigan is a writer, comedian, and frequent contributor to The New Yorker. Her work has appeared on NPR’s Selected Shorts, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Reductress, Mic, and Mountain Gazette. For more, check out her website: maevedunigan.com.

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