Pick Me Up: A Pep Talk for Now and Later - Softcover

Kurtz, Adam J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143109081 ISBN 13: 9780143109082

Publisher: TarcherPerigee, 2016

Synopsis

An intimate and engaging journal that offers a pick-me-up on every page. Feeling lonely? Pensive? Peeved? Questioning? This deceptively simple book offers perspective, hope, and a twist of existential metaphor - and is perfect to pick up again and again.
Unlike a linear journal, this book can be opened up to any page, encouraging and engaging readers time and time again through continued use. Rather than simply complete tasks and turn pages, users are encouraged to leave their mark, and if they land on the same page days or weeks later, they can review, reflect, and revise their previous response. Perfect for anyone who loves to explore ideas, record thoughts and feelings, and capture those fleeting but amazing moments of everyday life.
  *** THINGS ARE WHAT YOU MAKE OF THEM: Life Advice For Creatives - Insights and inspiration for anyone who makes art (or anything else), from the popular author of 1 Page at a Time and Pick Me Up. Available October 2017.

About this title

About the Author:

Adam J. Kurtz (aka ADAMJK) is a Brooklyn-based artist and author whose first book, 1 Page at a Time: A Daily Creative Companion has been translated into fifteen languages. In addition to personal work, he's collaborated on products for retailers such as Urban Outfitters, Strand Bookstore, and Fishs Eddy, and made work for companies including Pepsi, Adobe and the New York Times. In 2016, he was named one of PRINT Magazine's "15 Under 30" New Visual Artists.

Review:

"Adam J. Kurtz is master of the playful, lightweight mood booster." -BuzzFeed

"A new spin on the self-help genre." -NYLON

"This book is helping me live my best life and Adam J. Kurtz is my fave therapist!" -Tavi Gevinson, Editor-in-Chief, Rookie

"This self help journal lets you draw your own pep talk - Pick Me Up is riddled with advice, quirky illustrations, and questionable dad jokes. By poking fun at society's unrealistic expectations surrounding eternal happiness, Kurtz instead works to assist his readers in arriving at their own unique pursuit of contentment..." -VICE 
"I am so grateful to have Pick Me Up in my life. It saves me so much money on therapy and is way more fun anyway. Stay in, order a pizza and scribble your way out of that deep dark hole." -Michelle Branch, musician

"Adam J. Kurtz is a magician: the alchemist of paper and pencil, rendering our inner lives visible, tactile and full of potentiality. He reminds us that creativity is the coolest of all resources-infinite, fun, free-and that we are blessed to have it." -Melissa Broder, author of So Sad Today

"Full of sound advice, self-care, modern-day anxieties, cautious optimism and dark comedy." -Cool Hunting

About this edition

• Publisher: TarcherPerigee
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0143109081
• ISBN 13: 9780143109082
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256