uncult

If everything’s actually working, close the book; there’s nothing here for you, and I mean that kindly. But you’re still reading. So something’s off - not broken, off. A low hum you’ve been quiet about, because you have a good life and no cause to complain. And that hum is one of the most intelligent things about you. Courageous dissatisfaction is the door. Welcome.

-FROM UNCULT

This book is for the courageously dissatisfied.

You know who you are or, maybe, you’re just starting to feel it.

Maybe you’re in the place where you’re beginning to notice that the life in front of you is not what was promised. You’re starting to ask if there’s another way to live besides checking boxes and feeling progressively more dead inside. You feel it in your body before you have words for it: restlessness, discontent, even rage; this bone-deep knowing that you are responsible for this thing called your one finite life and you are not doing everything you can to spend it well. And you are ready to act.

Or maybe you’re past that. Maybe you’re the one who couldn’t stay in the marriage everyone said was perfect. The one who left the religion that stopped making sense somewhere around age twenty-four, but kept going through the motions for another decade because what else were you supposed to do? Who walked away from the six-figure job that was slowly killing you, or who’s still there, reading this on your phone in the bathroom at work because you can’t admit out loud that you’re drowning.

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Out November 2.

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