Amanda Palmer is a world-renowned singer, songwriter, activist, director, and blogger who first came to prominence as one half of the internationally acclaimed punk cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls.
She is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and has shown her underwear on Australian television. She currently avoids living in places including Boston, New York, and Melbourne with her husband, author Neil Gaiman, who is easily embarrassed.
Palmer's TED Talk, "The Art of Asking," which she presented at a 2013 TED conference, has been viewed at least 8 million times around the world. You can visit her website and blog at www.AmandaPalmer.net.
"'The Art of Asking' is a compelling read, easily the most
universal work she has ever done."--The Boston Globe
"A book unlike any other I've ever read. . . a book I'd have no
problem recommending to everyone I know. My mother, my best friend,
my work friends, my Facebook friends, my LinkedIn contacts, even
the people I meet on the street or see on the subway when I commute
to and from work. It's that important and that groundbreaking. This
book is not just someone's brave and personal journey from
childhood to her life as an artist, but it also addresses why and
how it's so hard to look into someone else's eyes and be real, and
ask for help when we need it. . . . Palmer has, not to put too fine
a point on it, ripped open her chest and exposed her heart for all
to see. She's written her truth - and it's at once brutal and
gloriously, importantly beautiful."--The Huffington Post
"A story about a life in one dollar bills, from statue to icon,
where media doesn't matter, crowds do. Mandatory reading in the
digital age, for aspiring artists and their doubtful parents."
--Nicholas Negroponte, founder, MIT Media Lab
"Amanda has a direct line with her audience-a lifeline for them and
for her, the codependency all truly great performers surrender to .
. . She's capable of anything, incapable of telling anything but
the truth."
--Bono
"Amanda Palmer joyfully shows a generation how to change their
lives."--Caitlin Moran, author of How to Be a Woman and How to
Build a Girl
"Amanda Palmer's generous work of genius will change the way you
think about connection, love, and grace."
--Seth Godin, author of Tribes
"From this beautiful, heart-wrenching story of art comes an
incredible account of the nature and future of commerce."
--Lawrence Lessig, author of Free Culture
"Much as Anne Lamott offered 'instructions on writing and life' in
Bird by Bird, Amanda Palmer will be instructive to anyone who
struggles with fear of the 'no.'"--Shelf Awareness
"This is the kind of book that makes you want to call the author up
at midnight to whisper, 'My God. I thought I was the only
one.'"--Jenny Lawson, the Bloggess and author of Let's Pretend This
Never Happened
"To read Amanda Palmer's remarkable memoir about asking and giving
is to tumble headlong into her world. At first, you find yourself
thinking, 'Goodness, what a crazy world that Amanda Palmer
inhabits! How does she possibly endure it?' Then, gradually, as you
read along, a doorway opens up in your heart, and you realize, 'I
want to live in a world exactly like hers.' God willing, this book
will show us all how to do it."--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat,
Pray, Love and The Signature of All Things
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