Are You Serious?: How to Be True and Get Real in the Age of Silly

By Lee Siegel

LeeSiegel, author of Falling Upwards , Not RemotelyControlled , and Against the Machine delivers a provocative critique ofmodern lightness and frivolity, and a timely guide to being serious in an unserious age. In the vein of The Culture of Narcissism , Shop Class as Soulcraft , and How Proust Can Change Your Life , Siegel offers a revelatory look at how a serious bearing is vital toaccomplishing any worthwhile goal in an era increasingly defined by a sardonicapproach to life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061766038
• ISBN13: 9780061766039
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"