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A beautifully-illustrated, celebratory anthology exploring sadness - and the transformative power of tears.. When was the last time you cried? Was it because you were sad? Or happy? Overwhelmed, or frustrated? Maybe from relief or from pride? Was it in public or in private? Did you feel better afterwards, or worse? The reasons that we cry - and the circumstances in which we shed a tear - are often surprising and beautiful. Sad Happens is a collective, multi-faceted archive of tears that captures the complexity and variety of these circumstances. We hear from Mike Birbiglia on the role that grief and pain have in comedy; Jia Tolentino on how motherhood made her cry in both hormonal joy and fervent rage; and Hanif Abdurraqib on the intimacy of crying on planes.
About the Author
Brandon Stosuy is the co-founder and editor in chief at The Creative Independent, the co-founder of the annual Basilica Soundscape festival in Hudson, NY, and the co-founder of Zone 6. Previously, he was Managing Editor and Director of Editorial Operations at the website Pitchfork and has been a music curator at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles and at MoMA PS1 in New York City. For the past 12 years Stosuy and the visual artist Matthew Barney have collaborated on a series of live events, objects, and print publications related to their Long Island City performance space, REMAINS. (They are at work on a book about that space.) His anthology, Up is Up, But So Is Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992 was published by NYU Press in 2006 and he is the author of two children's books: Music Is and We Are Music, along with a three-volume journal and memoir series about work/life balance, inspiration, and failure. The first installment, Make Time For Creativity, is out September 8, 2020 on Abrams Image. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., with his wife and two sons.
