A New York Times Bestseller Funny subversive and able to excavate such brutally honest
sentences that you find yourself nodding your head in wonder and recognition. -Lin-Manuel
Miranda composer and lyricist of In the Heights and Hamilton: An American Musical Are you a
sensible universally competent individual? Are you tired of the crushing monotony of leaping
gracefully from one lily pad of success to the next? Are you sick of doing everything right? In
this brutally honest and humorous debut musician and artist George Watsky chronicles the small
triumphs over humiliation that make life bearable and how he has come to accept defeat as
necessary to personal progress. The essays in How to Ruin Everything range from the absurd (how
he became an international ivory smuggler) to the comical (his middle-school rap battle
dominance) to the revelatory (his experiences with epilepsy) yet all are delivered with the
type of linguistic dexterity and self-awareness that has won Watsky devoted fans across the
globe. Alternately ribald and emotionally resonant How to Ruin Everything announces a
versatile writer with a promising career ahead.
