Modern Romance

Release on 2015-06-16 | by Aziz Ansari

For years, Aziz Ansari has been aiming his comic insight at modern romance, but for Modern Romance, the book, he decided he needed to take things to another level.

Author: Aziz Ansari
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780698179967
Category: Humor
Page: 288
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Modern Romance

The #1 New York Times Bestseller A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from Aziz Ansari, the star of Master of None and one of this generation’s sharpest comedic voices At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it’s wildly different from what people did even just decades ago. Single people today have more romantic options than at any point in human history. With technology, our abilities to connect with and sort through these options are staggering. So why are so many people frustrated? Some of our problems are unique to our time. “Why did this guy just text me an emoji of a pizza?” “Should I go out with this girl even though she listed Combos as one of her favorite snack foods? Combos?!” “My girlfriend just got a message from some dude named Nathan. Who’s Nathan? Did he just send her a photo of his penis? Should I check just to be sure?” But the transformation of our romantic lives can’t be explained by technology alone. In a short period of time, the whole culture of finding love has changed dramatically. A few decades ago, people would find a decent person who lived in their neighborhood. Their families would meet and, after deciding neither party seemed like a murderer, they would get married and soon have a kid, all by the time they were twenty-four. Today, people marry later than ever and spend years of their lives on a quest to find the perfect person, a soul mate. For years, Aziz Ansari has been aiming his comic insight at modern romance, but for Modern Romance, the book, he decided he needed to take things to another level. He teamed up with NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg and designed a massive research project, including hundreds of interviews and focus groups conducted everywhere from Tokyo to Buenos Aires to Wichita. They analyzed behavioral data and surveys and created their own online research forum on Reddit, which drew thousands of messages. They enlisted the world’s leading social scientists, including Andrew Cherlin, Eli Finkel, Helen Fisher, Sheena Iyengar, Barry Schwartz, Sherry Turkle, and Robb Willer. The result is unlike any social science or humor book we’ve seen before. In Modern Romance, Ansari combines his irreverent humor with cutting-edge social science to give us an unforgettable tour of our new romantic world.

Language: en
Pages: 288

Modern Romance

Authors: Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg

Categories: Humor

Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-16 - Publisher: Penguin

Language: en
Pages: 267

Staging Early Modern Romance

Authors: Mary Ellen Lamb, Valerie Wayne

Categories: Literary Criticism

Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-13 - Publisher: Routledge

This collection recovers the continuities between three forms of romance that have often been separated from one another in critical discourse: early modern prose fiction, the dramatic romances staged in England during the 1570s and 1580s, and Shakespeare’s late plays. Although Pericles, Cymbeline, Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest have long

Language: en
Pages: 198

This Modern Romance: The Artistry, Technique, and Business of Engagement Photography

Authors: Stephanie Williams, Christen Vidanovic

Categories: Photography

Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-15 - Publisher: CRC Press

Love is less confined than ever, as is our desire to capture it. Engagement photography has become an essential and valuable component of wedding photography for both your clients and your photography business. Successfully booking romantic portrait sessions and providing your couples with creative, playful, and beautiful images can mean

Language: en
Pages:

Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari (Trivia-On-Books)

Authors: Trivion Books

Categories: Photography

Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-20 - Publisher: Trivia-On-Books

Trivia-on-Book: Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari Take the fan-challenge yourself and share it with family and friends! In the 2015 New York Times Bestseller Modern Romance, celebrated actor and comedian Aziz Ansari explores the interaction between love and technology and how this affects today's romantic relationships. The book is the