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Odell is not interested in telling you how to hack your way to happiness. The uptick in the personal growth market is telling: In our current moment, people feel anxious and unmoored, and seem to be desperately seeking the cure-all that self-help books so often promise to deliver. "Also, although I’m not super interested in self-help books-especially digital detox self-help books-I do think it’s interesting how many of them are coming out right now.” “By the time you figure out that it's not, it's too late," she says. But with a title like How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (out April 9), the artist and writer understands (and doesn’t necessarily hate) why it might seem like one.

Jenny Odell’s new book is not a self-help book.