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I Don't Care About Your Band
Julie Klausner
Gotham
February 2010
On Sale: February 2, 2010
272 pages ISBN: 1592405614 EAN: 9781592405619 Paperback
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In the tradition of Cynthia Heimel and Chelsea Handler, and
with the boisterous iconoclasm of Amy Sedaris, Julie
Klausner's candid and funny debut I Don't Care About Your
Band sheds light on the humiliations we endure to find
love--and the lessons that can be culled from the wreckage.
I Don't Care About Your Band posits that lately the worst
guys to date are the ones who seem sensitive. It's the jerks
in nice guy clothing, not the players in Ed Hardy, who break
the hearts of modern girls who grew up in the shadow of
feminism, thinking they could have everything, but end up
compromising constantly. The cowards, the kidults, the
critics, and the contenders: these are the stars of
Klausner's memoir about how hard it is to find a man--good
or otherwise--when you're a cynical grown-up exiled in the
dregs of Guyville. Off the popularity of her New York Times
"Modern Love" piece about getting the brush-off from an
indie rock musician, I Don't care About Your Band is marbled
with the wry strains of Julie Klausner's precocious
curmudgeonry and brimming with truths that anyone who's ever
been on a date will relate to. Klausner is an expert at
landing herself waist-deep in crazy, time and time again, in
part because her experience as a comedy writer (Best Week
Ever, TV Funhouse on SNL) and sketch comedian from NYC's
Upright Citizens Brigade fuels her philosophy of how any
scene should unfold, which is, "What? That sounds crazy?
Okay, I'll do it." I Don't Care About Your Band charts a
distinctly human journey of a strong-willed but vulnerable
protagonist who loves men like it's her job, but who's done
with guys who know more about love songs than love.
Klausner's is a new outlook on dating in a time of pop
culture obsession, and she spent her 20's doing personal
field research to back up her philosophies. This is the
girl's version of High Fidelity. By turns explicit, funny
and moving, Klausner's debut shows the evolution of a young
woman who endured myriad encounters with the wrong guys, to
emerge with real- world wisdom on matters of the heart. I
Don't Care About Your Band is Julie Klausner's manifesto,
and every one of us can relate.
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