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The Day I Turned Uncool




The Day I Turned Uncool
by Dan Zevin
Random HouseRandom, Incorporated; June 2002

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Description:

Dan Zevin has chronicled the reluctant passage of Generation X from hip dissonance to cubicle conformity. This collection of essays track his development from disinterested beer-swilling slob into the type of person who suddenly cares about his lawn, golf and health clubs. His earlier works, Entry-Level Life and Nearly-Wed Handbook, served as primers to former slackers confronting new realities, and now in The Day I Turned Uncool, he reminds Gen-Xers of the Next Great Steps: recreational sports — home maintenance — parenthood.


Our panel:

Dave Mulligan
Mike Armitage
Jan Koenen
Mike Chern

Links for this book:
The Phoenix
Boston Herald

Also by this author:
The Nearly-Wed Handbook, Avon Books, May 1998

Entry-Level Life, Bantam Books, March 1994

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