Bored and Brilliant: How Time Spent Doing Nothing Changes Everything ceramics Sloane Crosley spins a wry

Sloane Crosley spins a wry literary fantasy that is equal parts page-turner and poignant portrayal of alienation

and a totally unexpected manifestation in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn’t even know he had one

an up-and-coming race car driver

and launching the career of one of America's most treasured writers

Conversation in the Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of General Ordia

Bored and Brilliant: How Time Spent Doing Nothing Changes Everything ceramics Sloane Crosley spins a wryIts time to move doing nothing to the top of your to do list. In 2015, Manoush Zomorodi, host of WNYCs popular podcast and radio show 'Note To Self' led tens of thousands of listeners through an experiment to help them unplug from their devices, get bored, jumpstart their creativity, and change their lives. Bored and Brilliant builds on that experiment to show us how to rethink our gadget use to live better and smarter in this new digital ecosystem.