Popular ‘Hyperbole and a Half’ blog soon to be a book
Brooklyn BookBeat: Author to speak in Greenpoint
Allie Brosh, the author behind the wildly popular blog “Hyperbole and a Half” and the #1 Indie Next Pick for November, “HYPERBOLE AND A HALF: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened” (on-sale: Oct. 29), will visit WORD Bookstore in Greenpoint on Wednesday, Oct. 30. She will read, take audience questions, and sign (plus maybe draw a bit for lucky fans!).
Brosh’s blog regularly receives up to five million unique visitors per month, as fans eagerly await each hilarious story of Brosh’s rambunctious childhood, the challenges of life as a “real adult,” the many misadventures along the way—and especially her moving, yet purposefully humorous, recounting of her struggles with depression.
Brosh has more than 117,000 Twitter followers and 380,000+ likes on Facebook. Strikingly, on May 9, after almost two years of online silence while she battled severe depression, Allie reemerged with “Depression Part Two,” a blog post which has been universally hailed as one of the best descriptions of depression ever written. The post received over 5,000 comments on the blog, while her accompanying Facebook post received more than 36,000 likes and 15,000 shares.