{"product_id":"nothing-new-just-better-lighting-still-noticing","title":"Nothing New, Just Better Lighting (Still Noticing)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGrowing up is just childhood with a different résumé.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Perfectly Normal Childhood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e comes a sharp, funny, uncomfortably honest collection of essays about the person you were — and the person you still are.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJason Ramshaw ran magic shows out of his basement. Charged admission. Controlled the lighting. He was ten.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy the time he was selling draft beer at the Ritz-Carlton, moving cookware to people who didn't cook, and performing nightly at a steakhouse where the real show happened in forty-minute intervals downstairs — the pattern was obvious to everyone except him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNothing New, Just Better Lighting\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e picks up where \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Perfectly Normal Childhood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e left off. Except now the tricks have titles. The haunted house has a lease. And the kid who always had to run the room is starting to notice that the room never actually changed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese fourteen essays move from childhood performances to boardroom instincts, from a couch where everything finally stopped to a bee colony that cooperated better than most companies — and didn't survive either.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlong the way, Ramshaw catalogs a life spent confusing:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEffort for identity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCharm for connection\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMotion for progress\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNo lessons. No redemption arc.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Just evidence, stacked cleanly, under better lighting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor readers of David Sedaris, Sloane Crosley, Samantha Irby, and anyone who has ever suspected that growing up is just childhood with a different résumé.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBook Two of the Still Noticing trilogy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Book One: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Perfectly Normal Childhood (and Other Lies I Tell Myself)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e — available now. Book Three: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBefore Anyone Says Anything\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e — available now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45912491065535,"sku":"d58b450d-e856-4961-bb6e-a5edb376f52f","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/368a485647e50f6183447ce83ced8cea.jpg?v=1785008616","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/nothing-new-just-better-lighting-still-noticing","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}