So You've Been Publicly Shamed

From the internationally bestselling author of "The Psychopath Test," a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world s most overlooked forces.

For the past three years, Jon Ronson has been immersing himself in the world of modern-day public shaming meeting famous shamees, shamers, and bystanders who have been impacted. This is the perfect time for a modern-day "Scarlet Letter" a radically empathetic book about public shaming, and about shaming as a form of social control. It has become such a big part of our lives it has begun to feel weird and empty when there isn t anyone to be furious about. Whole careers are being ruined by one mistake. A transgression is revealed. Our collective outrage at it has the force of a hurricane. Then we all quickly forget about it and move on to the next one, and it doesn t cross our minds to wonder if the shamed person is okay or in ruins. What s it doing to them? What s it doing to us?

Ronson s book is a powerful, funny, unique, and very humane dispatch from the frontline, in the escalating war on human nature and its flaws."