“Chris Stedman’s IRL is an audaciously honest and startlingly prescient meditation on the way our digital connectivity has altered, deformed, and enhanced the experience of the human. A necessary and nourishing book.”
Author: zrosen
Vocation Matters
“Honest and careful. . .[Stedman] offers compelling new ways to think about our own engagement in the digital world, constantly pushing us to consider what is real. . .Provocative, unlikely, and fascinating.”
MEL Magazine
“IRL is such a sensitive, intelligent look at . . . finding realness and purpose online.”
MyTalk FM
“A perfect book for our Twitter-fingered, selfie-obsessed times.”
Open Letters Review
“Odds are we’re all going to be living online for the foreseeable future. Stedman’s hard-won wisdom on the subject is well worth heeding.”
Minneapolis City Pages
“If you’ve ever wondered why you can’t stop drunk tweeting or stick to your commitment to delete Facebook from your phone, Stedman’s book might help you feel better about—and maybe even better understand—your behavior.”
Foreword Reviews
“The online world has infiltrated the daily lives of billions of people in such a short amount of time. But what exactly is happening in the minds of so many social media users? . . . Stedman is at ease in the existential, both digitally and [offline, and] IRL is a fascinating contribution to this all-important conversation.”
Largehearted Boy
“IRL is a profound and necessary exploration of our identities online and how we interact with each other.”
Sarah Jones
“IRL is a beautiful, honest book, a true balm for my Twitter-addled brain.”
BuzzFeed Books
“A must-read for anyone who’s condemned the internet for creating huge social disconnect, and everyone whose lived experiences prove otherwise. Stedman explores the many ways people form meaningful relationships and reveal their authentic selves through social media and forums—often with more success and freedom than in their ‘real’ lives. Which brings me to an especially salient point—that this distinction between our digital and physical lives is an antiquated one, and both are equally real.”