PostSecret meets The Moth in creator of the outrageous Risk! podcast Kevin Allison's RISK!: True Stories People Never Thought They'd Dare to Share, a collection of essays by actors, comedians, and everyday people about the experiences that define us. RISK! is a book of secrets, both bad and beautiful, devoted to the understanding that the truth will set you free--and keep you laughing and crying. Bringing together essays from writers and comedians including Jonah Ray, Lili Taylor, and Michael Ian Black, RISK! captures the formative moments in our lives that we are typically too afraid to share. Topics range from trauma to sexuality to love to loss to finally understanding what human connection means. Edited and with an introduction by Kevin Allison, the creator and host of the RISK! podcast, this collection is a must-read for anyone who loves vivid, brutally honest stories.
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CONTRIBUTORS: Kevin W. Allison
EAN: 9780316478281
COUNTRY: United States
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WEIGHT: 340 g
HEIGHT: 210 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Little, Brown & Company
DATE PUBLISHED: 2018-08-16
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GENRE: COMPUTERS / Internet / Podcasting & Webcasting, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, HUMOR / Form / Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
WIDTH: 138 cm
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Literary essays, Digital Lifestyle and online world: consumer and user guides, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Humour collections and anthologies
Brit + Co, "12 Books You'll Want to Read on the Beach This Summer"Amazon, Best Books of the MonthAOL.com, "14 Beach Reads"Kobo, Most Anticipated Nonfiction, Best Books of the Month, "RISK! gives a platform to stories rarely heard, to people rarely represented and their most insane experiences. This book pushes us to live lives that inspire stories like these, to take risks you wanna live through to tell the stories about."--Ilana Glazer, co-creator and co-star of Broad City, "RISK! uncovers life at its most hilarious and terrifying. Each story leads readers over a tripwire and leaves you thinking, 'Wow...'"--Glynn Washington, host of WNYC's Snap Judgment, "RISK! will move you to live fiercely and share your wildest truths!"--John Hodgman, actor, humorist, and New York Times bestselling author of Vacationland, "[A] fascinating book...Naughty, funny, and scary in ways that will make you think, feel, and maybe even want to share a story that you never thought you'd dare to."--MetroSource
With his writing and acting work on MTV's legendary sketch comedy series, The State, as well as on Reno 911!, High Maintenance, Blue Man Group and more, Kevin Allison has created all kinds of stories. In 2009, he launched RISK!, the live show and podcast where people tell true stories they never thought they'd dare to share, which is downloaded over 2.5 million times per month. Allison is also the founder of The Story Studio in New York, where he has taught the art of storytelling to bestselling authors, well-known comedians, and executives from a range of fields.
