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Catherine Baab-Muguira\u00a0is a writer and journalist who has contributed to, among others, Slate, Quartz, CNBC and NBC News. A frequent podcast and radio guest, with appearances on NPR and Lifehacker\u2019s\u00a0Upgrade<\/i>, she lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband and baby son.<\/p>\n
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Running Press\/Hachette, 2021<\/p>\n
When life\u2019s got you down and things aren\u2019t going your way, who better to turn to than Edgar Allan Poe? Discover how to say “nevermore” to your problems in this darkly comedic and refreshing self-help guide.<\/b><\/p>\n
Of all the writers anywhere, Poe might be the\u00a0least<\/i>\u00a0likely person you’d ever turn to for advice. His life was a complete dumpster fire: he married his cousin; got fired from one job after another; constantly feuded with friends and rivals; and<\/i> he was always broke. But that\u2019s also precisely the point. Though Poe failed again and again, he also persevered.<\/p>\n
Drawing deeply on his works and life, Catherine Baab-Muguira takes the familiar image of Poe in a new and surprising direction in this darkly inspiring self-help book. Despite what you might think, Edgar Allan Poe is the\u00a0perfect<\/i>\u00a0person to teach you to say “Nevermore, problems!” and show you how to use all the terrible situations, tough breaks, bad luck, and even your darkest emotions in novel and creative ways to make a name for yourself and carve out your own unique, notorious place in the world.<\/p>\n
An inspirational tale for black sheep everywhere,\u00a0Poe for Your Problems<\/i>\u00a0will teach you how to overcome life\u2019s biggest challenges to succeed at work, love, and art\u2014despite the odds and no matter your flaws.<\/p>\n
\u201cBooks about people\u2019s successes are common. Books where you can learn from someone\u2019s painful demons and failures are rarer\u2014but far more meaningful. Cat’s writing on Poe is insightful, funny and important.\u201d\u2015Ryan Holiday, author of THE OBSTACLE IS THE WAY<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cFresh, page-turning, deeply informed and often funny, Catherine Baab-Muguira\u2019s Poe for Your Problems <\/i>brings us a sorely overdue Poe-meets-modernity perspective that won\u2019t simply make its readers happier but smarter and even saner, too.\u201d\u2015Alan Pell Crawford, author of HOW NOT TO GET RICH: THE FINANCIAL MISADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cI loved this! A book Poe himself might\u2019ve written: fun, dangerous, a little dark, semi-autobiographical, ambitious but not pompous, and funny and outrageous!\u201d\u2015Steve Hely, producer of THE OFFICE, 30 ROCK, and VEEP, author of HOW I BECAME A FAMOUS NOVELIST<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cThis is more like an\u00a0anti-self-help book, a guide to accepting yourself for the substance-abusing, sexually suspect fuckup you already are; a how-to for cultivating grudges, nurturing petty jealousies and vendettas, scheming the destruction of your enemies and indulging delusions of grandeur. I endorse this.\u201d\u2015Tim Kreider, author of I WROTE THIS BOOK BECAUSE I LOVE YOU and WE LEARN NOTHING<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cBeautifully written, funny, clever, and wise . . .\u00a0Baab-Muguira not only provides us with invaluable takeaways from Poe\u2019s antisocial behavior, but also implores us to embrace our own madness, or as she calls it, our “own weird-ass, occasionally combative truth.'”\u2015John Reeves, author of A FIRE IN THE WILDERNESS<\/b><\/p>\n
“On the surface, it is something of a self-help satire, mining Poe’s difficult life to make readers feel better about theirs. Scratch that surface, though, and you find a deeper, more profound purpose…a book that is witty yet weighty, designed to provide smiles but also a lift.”\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0— THE RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n