The film tie-in edition of It's Kind of a Funny Story features a brain-map title page inspired by the art in the book and the original cover. It looks something like this, an image that Focus Features provided to Hyperion Books in summer 2010:



For more about the art from the film, see here: Don't Trip..Yet: Visual: It's Kind of a Funny Story.

Thanks to everyone who has made this edition possible, including everybody at Hyperion Books, Focus Features, and all readers old and new.

The text is the same as the 2007 paperback edition.

On September 24, 2010, the book was released for the Amazon Kindle with this cover.

You can hear me read the first chapter of the book here:



You can also hear it at myspace.com/ikoafs.

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).

Thank you so much to everyone who has made this book a success since its original publication in 2000!

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?"):