Naked in the Rideshare: Stories of Gross Miscalculations

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From Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold, the youngest comedy writers ever forThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonand masterminds behind the viral 2018 Yale graduation speech, comes a hilarious collection of short stories taking on coming-of-age, memes, sex, politics, relationships, and Goop, with satire, self-deprecation, and utter irreverence.

Showing off their trademark humor and writing chops that have made them a viral sensation, Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold provide a collection of startlingly funny short stories that will keep readers laughing.

Naked in the Rideshare is a riotous collection of comedic short stories, bursting with the safe spaces, shrooms dealers, and Notes app apologies that define growing up right now. The essays take a drunken cannonball into this generations hopes and anxieties. A camp color war ends in ritual sacrifice. A twenty-something enters a sexual relationship with his childhood fairy god milf. A summit outside of space and time brings together a teen's selves from ages 1 to 81.

Irreverent, disturbing, and surprisingly rife with hope, Naked in the Rideshare aims to shine a light on the generation we cant stop talking aboutand all the ways we get them so wrong.

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Ben and Rebeccas collection of shorts is incredibly original, bizarre, and funny. Each one is distinct and yet reflects their collective genius as writers who are daring and ahead of the curve. Will Ferrell Voices of their generation. Except for Greta Thunberg. And Malala. Amanda Gorman . . . you know what, I take it back. Jimmy Fallon