Unreliable narrator : me, myself, and impostor syndrome

Summary: "A hilarious and insightful collection of essays exploring imposter syndrome, from the inside and out, by the most successful fraud in comedy. Aparna Nancherla is a superstar comedian on the rise--a darling of Netflix and Comedy Central's comedy special lineups, a headliner at comedy shows and music festivals, a frequenter of late night television and the subject of numerous profiles, all while co-hosting a regularly sold-out comedy show. She's also a successful actor who has written a barrage of thoughtful essays published by the likes of the New York Times. If you ask her, though, she's a total fraud. She'd hate to admit it, but no one does imposter syndrome quite like Aparna Nancherla"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781984879806 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
289 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : Viking, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Now that I have you here -- Be free, you wrinkly ghost! -- Failure resume -- Inside voice -- Confessions: antisocial skills -- Being well -- Confessions: the body electric -- To do or not to do -- A night in the life of revenge bedtime procrastination (RBP) -- The agreeability industrial complex -- Don't get mad, get even ... more mad -- Confessions: it's not personal(ity) -- Ha!ku -- Anxiety in tree acts -- Confessions: survival skills -- Unboxing my real life rom-com -- No comment -- Confessions: the brains of the bunch -- Talking about nothing -- Distant dispatches from the land of virtual interaction -- Standing up on my own terms -- Imagined reviews for, ahem, this book -- I tried : an epilogue.