Nothing Personal by Nancy Jo Sales
A raw and funny memoir about sex, dating, and relationships in the digital age, intertwined with a brilliant investigation into the challenges to love and intimacy wrought by dating apps, by firebrand New York Times bestselling author Nancy Jo Sales At 49, famed Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales was nursing a broken heart and wondering, How did I wind up alone? On the advice of a young friend, she downloaded Tinder, then a brand new dating app. What followed was a raucous ride through the world of online dating. Sales, an award-winning journalist and single mom, became a leading critic of the online dating industry, reporting and writing articles and making her directorial debut with the HBO documentary Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age. Meanwhile, she was dating a series of younger men, eventually falling in love with a younger man less than half her age. Nothing Personal is Sales' memoir of coming-of-middle-age in the midst of a new dating revolution. She is unsparingly honest about her own experience of addiction to dating apps and hilarious in her musings about dick pics, sexting, dating FOMO, and more. Does Big Dating really want us to find love, she asks, or just keep on using its apps? Fiercely feminist, Nothing Personal investigates how Big Dating has overwhelmed the landscape of dating, cynically profiting off its users' deepest needs and desires. Looking back through the history of dating, and her own relationships, Sales examines how sexism has always been a factor for women in dating, and asks what the future of courtship will bring, if left to the designs of Silicon Valley's tech giants-especially in a time of social distancing and a global pandemic, when the rules of dating are once again changing.Nancy Jo Sales is an award-winning journalist who has contributed to publications such as Vanity Fair, New York, Harper's Bazaar, and others. Damien Hirst, Hugh Hefner, Russell Simmons, Donald Trump, Tyra Banks, Angelina Jolie, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, and Taylor Swift are among the celebrities she has profiled. The Suspects Wore Louboutins, which she wrote for Vanity Fair in 2010, is the inspiration for Sofia Coppola's film The Bling Ring. Sales and her daughter live in New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780316492744 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316492744 |
| Title | Nothing Personal |
| Author | Nancy Jo Sales |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Legacy Lit |
| Year published | 2021-05-18 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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