{"product_id":"note-book-9780691166490","title":"Note Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA moving and original literary approach to self-understanding through social media\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The hunger for a feeling of connection that informs most everything I've written flows from a common break in a common heart, one I share with everyone I’ve ever really known.\"—\u003ci\u003eNote Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery single morning since early 2007, Princeton English professor Jeff Nunokawa has posted a brief essay in the Notes section of his Facebook page. Often just a few sentences but never more than a few paragraphs, these compelling literary and personal meditations have raised the Facebook post to an art form, gained thousands of loyal readers, and been featured in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. In \u003ci\u003eNote Book\u003c\/i\u003e, Nunokawa has selected some 250 of the most powerful and memorable of these essays, many accompanied by the snapshots originally posted alongside them. The result is a new kind of literary work for the age of digital and social media, one that reimagines the essay’s efforts, at least since Montaigne, to understand our common condition by trying to understand ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRanging widely, the essays often begin with a quotation from one of Nunokawa’s favorite writers—George Eliot, Henry James, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, or James Merrill, to name a few. At other times, Nunokawa is just as likely to be discussing Joni Mitchell or Spanish soccer striker Fernando Torres.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConfessional and moving, enlightening and entertaining, \u003ci\u003eNote Book\u003c\/i\u003e is ultimately a profound reflection on loss and loneliness—and on the compensations that might be found through writing, literature, and connecting to others through social media.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jeff Nunokawa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42955791433846,"sku":"9780691166490","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_e9af350b-f55a-4f25-aad5-7adbb177d66d.jpg?v=1767699157","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/note-book-9780691166490","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}