Be More Chill is the story of a guy in high school who gets a pill that makes him cool. The pill is called a "squip"--it's actually a quantum computer that lives in your brain and gives you real-time social advice. The kid is named Jeremy Heere.

• "A fresh, spontaneous and original voice. It's fun, wacky, outrageous. I just couldn't stop reading."
  -- Judy Blume

Be More Chill was the first young adult book ever selected for the Today Show Book Club:



For more about the squip campaign that ran from 2004-2005 to support the book, watch the squip video (warning: it may take a while to load).

For more about the scientific plausibility of the squip, check the squip watch.

The 2010 edition of Teen Angst? Naaah..., published by Random House, contains an afterword written by me in 2009 as well as revised footnotes.

The book does not have illustrations (as do the two earlier editions).

On February 29, 2012, the 2010 edition was released on Kindle.

Readers of the book may be interested in two videos related to it:

1. The Attack of the Turtle film
   (from the essay "Cable Access Says No"):
   
   


2. The music of Wormwhole
   (from the essay "Are We Alternative Now?"):
   

My third book: depression and redemption in the psych hospital. This cover is familiar to readers who found the book prior to the release of the film.

• "Insightful and utterly authentic... This is an important book."
  -- New York Times Book Review


• "Comparisons with Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar seem inevitable... beautifully handled."
  -- Bookmunch


• "It's terrific: funny, incisive, disarming."
  -- New York Magazine


• "The wise, witty narrator and sensitive handling of a hot topic should win over older teens--and their parents."
  -- People Magazine


• "Funny... [Vizzini] supplies personal insights and a clever, self-deprecating tone that make the book an entertaining read."
  -- The Washington Post

It's Kind of a Funny Story is recommended by legendary Powell's Books: