This seems standard now, but it’s wildly different from what people did even just decades ago. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. “At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. “A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from one of this generation’s most popular and sharpest comedic voices. OK, he may not address that specifically – but seriously someone should those chocolates in the heart-shaped boxes tastes awful – but according to the synopsis on Penguin Press, who are publishing his tome on the perils and joys of romance in our modern digitally-connected age, one he worked on with NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg, he dive headfirst into this endless topic and talks about a lot of love-ly stuff … We all want it, we ride up with it and many of us sadly come crashing down, it compels us to buy cards, flowers and weirdly misshapen teddy bears in the middle of February, and inspires to great oratorial and written displays on fervent, undying affection which poses no real threat to Shakespeare as the greatest writer of our age or any age but is still to bursting with passion anyway.Īnd now, stand-up comedian, Aziz Ansari, who spent seven seasons having all sorts of fun with public service on Parks and Recreation, and spends much of his current routine deal with the affairs of the heart, is coming to the aid of everyone who has wondered why love is so hard to find, so challenging to sustain and why the love it gives rise to is so unrelenting ordinary. The result is unlike any social science or humor book we’ve seen before. They enlisted the world’s leading social scientists, including Eli Finkel, Helen Fisher, Sheena Iyengar, Barry Schwartz, Sherry Turkle, and Robb Willer. They analyzed behavioral data and surveys and created their own online research forum on Reddit, which drew thousands of messages.

He teamed up with NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg and designed a massive research project, including hundreds of interviews and focus groups conducted everywhere from Tokyo to Buenos Aires to Wichita. For years, Aziz Ansari has been aiming his comic insight at modern romance, but forModern Romance, the book, he decided he needed to take things to another level.

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