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"How to Do Nothing mimics the experience of walking with a perceptive and sensitive friend, the kind of person who makes you feel, in your bones, that it's a miraculous gift to be alive."" -- ""Seattle Times"" ""An eloquent argument against the cult of efficiency, and I felt both consoled and invigorated by it."" -- ""New York Times Book Review"" ""An erudite and thoughtful narrative about the importance of interiority and taking time to pay close attention to the spaces around us."" -- ""San Francisco Chronicle"" ""Genuinely instructive, elaborating a practical philosophy to help us slow down and temporarily sidestep the forces aligned against both our mental health and long-term human survival."" -- ""Los Angeles Times"" ""She struck a hopeful nerve of possibility that I hadn't felt in a long time."" -- ""New Yorker"" ""Your chaotic, fraught internal weather isn't an accident, it's a business model, and while 'thoughtful resistance' isn't 'productive, ' Odell proves that it is utterly necessary. -- ""Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling author"""

How to Do Nothing mimics the experience of walking with a perceptive and sensitive friend, the kind of person who makes you feel, in your bones, that it's a miraculous gift to be alive. -- Seattle Times An eloquent argument against the cult of efficiency, and I felt both consoled and invigorated by it. -- New York Times Book Review An erudite and thoughtful narrative about the importance of interiority and taking time to pay close attention to the spaces around us. -- San Francisco Chronicle Genuinely instructive, elaborating a practical philosophy to help us slow down and temporarily sidestep the forces aligned against both our mental health and long-term human survival. -- Los Angeles Times She struck a hopeful nerve of possibility that I hadn't felt in a long time. -- New Yorker Your chaotic, fraught internal weather isn't an accident, it's a business model, and while 'thoughtful resistance' isn't 'productive, ' Odell proves that it is utterly necessary. -- Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling author

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Jenny Odell, an artist and writer who teaches at Stanford, has been an artist-in-residence at places like the San Francisco dump, Facebook, the Internet Archive, and the San Francisco Planning Department and has exhibited her art all over the world. Rebecca Gibel is an award-winning stage, television, and voice actress. The narrator of over fifty audiobooks, Rebecca is facile in a wide variety of genres. Rebecca has worked across the country at theaters such as Trinity Rep, Cleveland Play House, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Intiman Theatre, and the Arden Theatre Company. She holds a BA from the College of William & Mary and an MFA in acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep.

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