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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Amanda Montell with Kristin Keane
DESCRIPTION:Amanda Montell joins the Mill Valley Library to discuss her new 
 book The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality. From 
 the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a 
 Cult\, The Age of Magical Overthinking offers a delicious blend of cultural 
 criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the 
 power\, disadvantages\, and highlights of magical thinking.\n\nFollowing 
 her insightful books Wordslut and Cultish\, Amanda Montell now turns her 
 erudite eye to the inner workings of the human mind and its biases in her 
 most personal and electrifying work yet. “Magical thinking” can be 
 broadly defined as the belief that one's internal thoughts can affect 
 unrelated events in the external world. In all its forms\, magical thinking 
 works in service of restoring agency amid chaos\, but in The Age of Magical 
 Overthinking\, Montell argues that in the modern information age\, our 
 brains' coping mechanisms have been overloaded\, and our irrationality 
 turned up to an eleven.\n\nAmanda Montell is a writer and linguist from 
 Baltimore. Along with hosting the podcast Sounds Like a Cult\, her writing 
 has also appeared in The New York Times\, Marie Claire\, Cosmopolitan\, and 
 more. She holds a degree in linguistics from NYU and lives in Los Angeles 
 with her partner\, plants\, and pets.\n\nKristin Keane is the author of An 
 Encyclopedia of Bending Time and Luminaries. She is a researcher at 
 Stanford University where she also earned a PhD.\n\nOur bookseller for this 
 program is Sausalito Books by the Bay.
LOCATION:Creekside Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Maggie Grabmeier":MAILTO:mgrabmeier@cityofmillvalley.gov
CATEGORIES:In Person, Literary
CONTACT;CN="Maggie Grabmeier":MAILTO:mgrabmeier@cityofmillvalley.gov
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