{"product_id":"sad-stuff-on-the-street-9781623260668","title":"Sad Stuff on the Street","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSad Stuff on The Street\u003c\/i\u003e by Sloane Crosley and Greg Larson, and designed by Todd Oldham, is a sometimes humorous, yet often sad tribute to the untold stories of detritus found on the streets of cities around the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Featuring photographs and short essays from \u003cb\u003eLin-Manuel Miranda, Amy Sedaris, Salman Rushdie, Miranda July, Michael Chabon, Ben Gibbard, Jesse Eisenberg, \u003c\/b\u003e and by other sad stuff spotters across the globe, this collection chronicles the cast-offs of our daily lives and speculates on their origin and on their demise. Genuine sadness, however, is no laughing matter. Therefore, 100% of proceeds will go to NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness. NAMI is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis project came about in early 2011, when a man (San Francisco resident Greg Larson) and a woman (New York resident Sloane Crosley) broke up after a year of dating. But both of them harbored an actual desire to stay friends. So they kept communication alive by sending each other photos of so-sad-it's-funny objects they spotted on their respective streets. Eventually they decided to share their habit with the world and sadstuffonthestreet.com was born. For the past six years, humanity's single shoes, abandoned toys, and outdated television sets have found a home online.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSloane Crosley is a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author and contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOldham, Todd:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Todd Oldham makes things, lives, and works in New York City.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrosley, Sloane:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Sloane Crosley is a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author and contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling essay collections, \u003ci\u003eI Was Told There'd Be Cake\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor, \u003ci\u003eHow Did You Get This Number\u003c\/i\u003e and the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Clasp\u003c\/i\u003e. She served as editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Travel Writing\u003c\/i\u003e series and is featured in The Library of America's \u003ci\u003e50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion\u003c\/i\u003e as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Nonrequired Reading\u003c\/i\u003e. Her next book of essays, \u003ci\u003eLook Alive Out There\u003c\/i\u003e, will be published in April 2018. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e, and National Public Radio. She was the inaugural columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Op-Ed Townies series and has been a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and a columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eInterview Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. Her fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEsopus\u003c\/i\u003e. She also co-authored the novel \u003ci\u003eRead Bottom Up\u003c\/i\u003e using the pen name, Skye Chatham. In 2011, she co-created sadstuffonthestreet.com, which is more or less what it sounds like. The \u003ci\u003eSad Stuff on The Street\u003c\/i\u003e book will be published in partnership with Todd Oldham and AMMO Books in December of 2017 with 100 percent of proceeds going to NAMI. She lives in Manhattan and serves on the board of Housingworks and The Young Lions Committee at The New York Public Library.","brand":"Ammo Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50421888155922,"sku":"9781623260668","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_33d2ef60-2b08-411f-a834-7a79ba0daeb3.jpg?v=1729516285","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sad-stuff-on-the-street-9781623260668","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}