Yawn: Adventures in Boredom

“An exhilarating tour of apathy, restlessness, torpor, depression, paralysis and the places in between” (Stacy Schiff, author of The Witches), Mary Mann’s Yawn: Adventures in Boredom is an incisive and often hilarious story of one of our most interesting cultural phenomena: boredom.

With sharp wit and impressive historical acumen, Mary Mann tells the unexpected story of the hunt for a deeper understanding of boredom, in all its absurd, irritating, and inspiring splendor. Deftly wrought from...