AMANDA PALMER - THE ART OF ASKING (2LP) VINYL

Imagine standing on a box in the middle of a busy city, dressed as a white-faced bride, and silently using your eyes to ask people for money. Or touring Europe in a punk cabaret band, and finding a place to sleep each night by reaching out to strangers on Twitter. For Amanda Palmer, actions like these have gone beyond satisfying her basic needs for food and shelter—they’ve taught her how to turn strangers into friends, build communities, and discover her own giving impulses.

In THE ART OF ASKING (available for the first time on vinyl), Amanda—who rose to fame as the lead singer for the acclaimed band The Dresden Dolls and now performs as a solo artist who embraces (and explodes) traditional frameworks for music, theater, and art—expands upon her popular TED talk to reveal how those of us without thousands of Twitter followers and adoring fans can learn to ask. As Amanda writes in the book’s introduction:
“Asking is, in itself, the fundamental building block of any relationship. Constantly and usually indirectly, often wordlessly, we ask each other—our bosses, our spouses, our friends, our employees—in order to build and maintain our relationships with one another.