HTBU has been described as "smart" (Chicago Tribune), "engaging" (The Washington Post), "helpful" (New York magazine), "frequently hilarious" (The Guardian), "pretty terrific" (January magazine), "sharp [and] witty [and] brimming with advice" (Minneapolis Star Tribune), "odd" (The Montreal Gazette), "fortuitous" (Utne Reader), and "clever and, as the title promises, useful" (Newsweek).

136 Rivington

Posted: October 25th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: "progress", photos | Tags: , | No Comments »

This photo illustrates the epilogue for How to Be Useful. We didn’t end up using it. 136 Rivington was the fictional home of Sammy Glick (/home of the fictional Sammy Glick?), anti-hero of the book What Makes Sammy Run? That entire block of tenements eventually made way for this high school…what? exercise area? Prison yard? Occasionally I’d spot a sophomore girls’ gym class lined up to perform lazy, uncoordinated high kicks, but it didn’t appear to be used that often.