Synopses & Reviews
Adam Gnade's The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big
Motherfuckin' Sad is his self-described "anti-depression guide/guide to
a freer, more lawless life." Gnade's pamphlet looks at the root causes
for sadness, anxiety, and general malaise/boredom and offers helpful
point-by-point suggestions (in list form) and short essay pep-talks on
how to move beyond one's demons for a better, smarter, happier life.
Originally self-published by Gnade in 2012 as a hand-assembled zine
with screen printed covers, the title sold out of ten printings through
the mail order distribution of Pioneers Press. The Do-It-Yourself Guide
to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin' Sad was then expanded and
redesigned as a new published title by Pioneers Press. It is printed
with plant-based inks on recycled and Sustainable Forest Initiative
paper in the USA.
About the Author
Adam Gnade's (guh nah dee) work is released as a series of books and
records that share characters and themes; the fiction writing
continuing plot-lines
left open by the selfdescribed
"talking
songs" in an attempt
to compile a vast,
detailed, interconnected,
personal history of
contemporary
American life. This is
his first published
work of nonfiction.