It’s strange to think that not too long ago Melissa Broder was mostly unknown beyond New York City’s poetry community.

Then in 2012 she began doing something that would eventually lead to the national profile and universe of fans she has today. She created the Twitter alias @sosadtoday and began barfing out dispatches from her anxious brain. The account quickly took off, and soon even celebrities like Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus were retweeting @sosadtoday. The writer struggled with anxiety and depression, it was clear, but she used dark, brilliant, self-deprecating humor to deal.

Fans couldn’t put a name to the tweeter until May 2015, when Broder unmasked in a Rolling Stone interview. A book deal soon followed, and in 2016 Grand Central Publishing released the essay collection So Sad... Read More