![]() ![]() His book Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone, published last year, examined how solo living has become so prevalent in recent years that there are now more people living alone in the US than nuclear families living together. Klinenberg, meanwhile, is similarly steeped in the study of modern relationships. ![]() As Ansari tells it in Modern Romance, his new book on love in the time of the smartphone, the pair hit it off at a mutual friend’s. Modern Romance is set to be released June 16, and in anticipation of his first book, Ansari stopped by the BuzzFeed offices to talk about. Aziz Ansari was crushing on a girl we’ll call Tanya. I learned about things like Grindr, and heard about a guy who met his wife by typing ‘Jewish’ and his zip code into . Looks like Aziz Ansari can now add author to his resume. He has used research methods before, telling AV Club in 2013: “I have no experience online dating, so I learned about it from interviewing audience members via crowd work. In his Buried Alive set, he considered the difficulties of lasting romantic love, while his latest tour had a skit about the commitment phobia triggered by mobile phones. They even set up a research forum on Reddit, Modern Romantics, which asked questions like “Has anyone tried an ‘open relationship’? What were the rules? How did it go? Would you do it again?” and “Has anyone hired a consultant to help you put together an online dating profile or worked with a dating coach? How’d that go?”Īnsari has frequently mused on this material in successful tours filmed for Netflix specials like Dangerously Delicious and the forthcoming Aziz Ansari: Live at Madison Square Garden. ![]()
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