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• Earth Hates Me: True Confessions from a Teenage Girl Running Press Kids (Philadelphia, PA), 2017

1. Earth hates me : true confessions from a teenage girl LCCN 2017940737 Type of material Book Personal name Karp, Ruby. Main title Earth hates me : true confessions from a teenage girl / Ruby Karp. Published/Produced Philadelphia, PA : Running Press Kids, 2017. Projected pub date 1710 Description pages cm ISBN 9780762462612 (hc : alk. paper) 9780762462605 CALL NUMBER Not available Request in Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms

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  Ruby Karp (born August 30, 2000) is an American writer and comedian.

  Contents
  1 Writing
  2 Comedy
  3 Speaking
  4 Personal
  5 References
  6 External links
  Writing
  Karp began writing professionally in 2011 at the age of 10 when Molly McAleer, co-founder of Hello Giggles, asked her to contribute to the website by writing "Ruby's Corner", a weekly column that covered a variety of topics involving her observations and life experiences. She has also written articles for Mashable titled "I'm 13 and None of My Friends Use Facebook", which went viral,[1] and "How 13-Year-Olds Really Use Snapchat".[2] In 2017, she published her first book, Earth Hates Me, an inside look at being a teenager.[3][4][5] She has also written for Refinery29[6][7] as well as the "Sparklife" section of the education-oriented blog SparkNotes.[8]

  Comedy
  On her third birthday, Karp found herself onstage at UCB as a guest on Talk Show with Paul Scheer and Jake Fogelnest. Since then, she's performed monologues at ASSSSCAT, a monoscene with Chris Gethard, and appeared in an alien costume in a performance of the Broad City Live show in 2012. In 2004, she appeared on the first episode of Shutterbugs with Aziz Ansari and Rob Huebel on the MTV sketch comedy television show Human Giant. In 2008, Karp spoke about being a feminist with Amy Poehler on her web series Smart Girls at the Party when she was 7 years old. She performed in a variety of shows at UCB and, in February 2011, started hosting the story-telling show, Hello Giggles Presents Very Important Things. This show has since become the current, monthly stand-up show, We Hope You have Fun. She has performed stand up at other UCB shows including Fresh Out, Adulting, and Andy Blitz and Andy Blitz's Friends.

  Speaking
  Karp won a MOTH Story Slam when she was 12 years old at Housing Works. She spoke about being a feminist at TEDxRedmond in September 2013.[9][10] She was an ambassador for Dove on positive body image and spoke at the UN on this topic on September 25, 2014.[10][11] She hosted the second annual Student Voice Live on September 20, 2014.[12] In September 2017, she moderated the B-Fest panel at Barnes and Noble.[13]

  Personal
  Karp is a senior in high school and lives with her mother in New York City. Her mother, Marcelle Karp, is a TV producer and a co-founder of the women's lifestyle magazine Bust.[14]

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  Ruby Karp has been performing at UCB since she was a fetus. Her first official UCB show was in 2003 in Jake Fogelnest's and Paul Scheer's Talk Show. She's done monologues at ASSSSCAT, a monoscene with Chris Gethard and was in an alien costume in a Broad City Live show. She was the host of the monthly Hello Giggles Presents storytelling & stand up show. She's appeared in Human Giant and talked about feminism with Amy Poehler in Smart Girls at the Party. Ruby has won a Moth slam, she's done a TEDx talk, spoken at the UN and hosted StuVoice. Ruby has written for Hello Giggles, Mashable, Refinery29 and the Mindhut. She is the author of Earth Hates Me, which will be published October 2017. And, she currently hosts the monthly stand up show, We Hope You Have Fun at UCB East. She's a junior at LaGuardia School of Performing Arts and would really like to pass Calculus.

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  May 03, 2017 11:11 am
  Ruby Karp is proof that teens can do anything. She is currently 16 years old – but that hasn’t stopped her from performing as a comedian (at the UCB Theatre, no less), writing for publications such as HelloGiggles 😉, or collaborating with her heroes. Amy Poehler interviewed her when she was only seven (more on that later)!

  To add to her already impressive resume, Ruby has now written a book. Earth Hates Me: True Confessions from a Teenage Girl (available October 3rd) is what you’d get if you combined the memoir genre with a self-help book for young women. So basically, it’s exactly what we needed when we were growing up. It also doesn’t hurt that it features a blurb from Amy Poehler herself, as well as a Q&A intro with Broad City’s Ilana Glazer.

  Not only did Ruby agree to do a Q&A with us, but we also get to ~exclusively~ reveal her book’s cover:

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  Now, onto Ruby’s wisdom…

  HelloGiggles: What are the top 5 things we should know about you?

  Ruby Karp: I’m 16 and in high school. I live with my single (hit her up, boys!) mom in a shoe-box apartment in New York City. I’m a comedian, and have a comedy show on the second Monday of every month at UCBeast. I am a huge fan of all things Bo Burnham and Gilmore Girls. I am a cheesecake enthusiast, and I am not a fan of math. And I actually used to write for HelloGiggles!

  HG: While writing this book, what’s the most important thing you learned?

  RK: Things take TIME. I wrote this while studying for the ACT, stage-managing my school’s musical, taking two Advanced Placement classes — all while attempting to have a life as I work through Shameless. (LIP. GUYS. LIP.) It was a lot to juggle.

  I also wanted to keep the book as truthful as possible. In the first chapter, I preface the book by saying that I can't write what I don't know. You could have a home life that's very different from mine, but I can't write to a life that I'm not living. Nobody is going through the exact same thing, yet we all do have a common enemy: high school.

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  And I had to learn how to write to that, while giving advice that is (hopefully) useful. I use a lot of personal stories that I take examples from, so that those who are reading can learn from my experiences.

  HG: If you could say one thing to all the people who underestimate teens, what would it be?

  RK: We are the people who will be running the country when you’re old and no longer can, so start respecting us now because the future of the world is in our hands. We are the people creating and inventing the products and art you are using and seeing!!! We are more than Snapchat!

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  HG: What was it like getting a blurb from Amy Poehler? And interviewing Ilana Glazer?!

  RK: Well, I’ve actually known Amy my whole life, because I’ve been performing at UCB since I was a fetus. She interviewed me on “Smart Girls at the Party” when I was seven and has been one of my role models since I could remember. It was really, really cool that she did a blurb!

  I’ve also known Ilana since Broad City was a live show. She’s one of my favorite humans everrrrrrrr. We met through UCB, and she is one of the best gals I know. It was so interesting to listen to her views on being a teenager. I always forget that there is life after high school.

  HG: Do you have any advice for all the young women out there who aim to do what you’re doing?

  RK: YOU CAN DO EVERYTHING I’M DOING! Send an email to your favorite website! Send a pitch a day to different websites. By the end of the week, you’ll have at least one response. Go out! Talk to people! Start a rally in your town. Tell people what you believe in and tell them why they should believe in it, too. Start a blog.

  One of my favorite Whip It quotes is: "Be your own hero."

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  Teen Author Ruby Karp Wants You To Live By The Hannah Montana Method
  ARIANA ROMERO
  OCTOBER 6, 2017, 12:55 PM

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  Ruby Karp is taking the SAT on Saturday, and it's all she can think about. And, yet, the 17-year-old Upright Citizen Brigade rising star and 2017 Z-Lister was sitting in the Refinery29 office for a RIOT Live chat with the one, the only, Tina Fey on Thursday night. If you can't tell, Karp is clearly kind of a big deal. But, important conversations with living comedy legends isn't Karp's only recent achievement. No, the high school senior wrote an entire 280-page book, Earth Hates Me, which debuted earlier this week on October 3. She penned the entire revealing guide to the modern teen girl during her junior year, between juggling the demands of her school play, homework, and the mess of relationships that comes with high school.
  Fey and Ruby stopped by R29 to talk about the Earth, along with heartbreak, feminism — "the definition of 'Feminism' is as simple as boys and girls are of equal value. Everyone has equal rights" — and the best Hannah Montana metaphor in recent memory. The conversation proved there is a reason the 30 Rock alum repeatedly called Karp "clear-headed," "reasonable," and "empathetic:" the newly-minted author is one of the most self-aware people I have ever heard speak.
  At the top of the discussion, Fey noted the fact Karp, a feminist from birth thanks to her Bust-founder mom Marcelle Karp, "very articulately" recognizes her privilege as white, cisgender, New York City teen girl in Hates Me. As we know, that’s hard for card-carrying adults to even do. Yet, Karp admitted her challenges don’t even come close to those of "people who don’t have anything," or girls’ education activist and Taliban target Malala Yousafzai, who was name-checked. "But, at the same time, the people who are privileged enough to have [my] kinds of problems have those problems," Karp recognized, citing issues like boy woes and friendship troubles. "And I am one of those people who is privileged enough to have annoying, stupid problems." Not many teenagers are understandably prepared to concede to the fact their homeroom hiccups aren’t technically the end of the world.
  While Karp understands a guy not liking her back isn’t comparable to global catastrophes, she does hope her book goes a long way to defend her younger readers' myriad of emotions. "I think so much of growing up for me was figuring out how to accept what I was feeling as emotions," the up-and-coming comedian admitted. "And just being like, ‘It’s okay that right now I’m at a really, really hyper-emotional state. Because something that’s not important, but feels really important, is happening.’ Because I feel like that’s so much of what being a teenager is: figuring out how to deal with all these emotions for the first time."
  Although it’s easy to tell someone in that panicked state "It gets better," even Fey noted how that kind of platitude isn’t helping the situation. "At the time it’s all so painful it’s like going up to a person who’s screaming because their leg is broken and being like, ‘Honestly, it’s gonna heal. So you should stop screaming,’" Fey joked. "It really hurts right now, though!"

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  That is why Karp has come up with an entirely different set of advice to get through the emotional obstacle course that is one’s teens years. As anyone who’s sat in a single high school classroom can tell you, at that time, "You can’t help but care what people think of you," as the Earth Hates Me author put it. But, there is one small, Disney Channel-approved trick you can use to put things in perspective. "You have to remember Hannah Montana puts on a wig, and she’s one person. And then she takes it off, and she’s another person," Karp said, referencing a lesson in her book. "Embrace that [idea]. All the pressure you feel and all judgement you think you feel, just take it off." Fey is such a big fan of this tidbit of advice, she essentially said it right along with Karp, word for word.
  Considering this is Karp’s mantra, it’s no surprise she has pretty lofty goals for anyone who picks up her book, especially teens in the middle of their headiest, most high-anxiety years. "A lot of the advice is cliché and cheesy, and I understand that, I’m acknowledging that, but I hope people just feel a little less cynical about the world and realize everything isn’t the biggest deal," she said with that trademark awareness. "Things hurt a lot in the moment, but you get through them. And life goes on, and you realize you’re much stronger than you thought you were."
  It sounds like Karp picked up a similar level of perspective by re-reading Earth while recording the audiobook version, saying she also learned she’s personally "stronger" than she expected. "I wrote some of the most inspirational parts of this book when I was crying and not feeling good," she revealed, explaining she penned chapters on heartbreak or friend drama right as she experienced it. "You can see how much I was feeling in those pages. And I look back on it like, ‘I dealt with that. I got through that. That happened. I’m good now. And that was awesome.’"
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  TALKING WITH RUBY KARP, THE UPRIGHT TEEN FEMINIST CITIZEN
  Our parenting columnist sits down with the 17-year-old author of 'Earth Hates Me' and learns why some girls recoil at the word "feminist" while still embracing its principles.

  Kate Tuttle Oct 10, 2017

  At 17, Ruby Karp has a résumé more impressive than most folks twice her age. She’s done a TEDx talk, appeared with Amy Poehler on her video series “Smart Girls at the Party,” and had her byline appear in publications like Refinery29, Mashable, and Hello Giggles. She hosts a monthly standup show at the Upright Citizens Brigade, whose website notes that she’s been performing there “since she was a fetus.” And now she’s an author—her book, Earth Hates Me, was published this month by Running Press, with an introduction by Broad City’s Ilana Glazer.

  She’s also a teenager, a class of humanity often derided or diminished by adult society, but one that has increasingly come into its own as a cultural and political force (note how Teen Vogue became a must-read in the past year). Still, it’s not easy growing up, no matter how well-connected or otherwise fortunate a teen may be. For Karp, navigating adolescence in today’s America is equal parts hilarious and terrifying, proving that as always, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

  DAME spoke with Karp by phone from somewhere in New York City.

  You write about the negative aspects of social media, which are pretty well known, but you’re also an advocate of social media: You talk a lot about the creative aspects, the communal aspects, the way it can bring people together. How do you personally find that balance, navigating between the negative sides of social media with the positive?
  Obviously there are a lot of negatives that come with being on social media: the whole FOMO [fear of missing out], the constantly being on your phone and not living in the moment. But I feel like social media has a lot more power than we think it does. I think a lot of what makes social media so great is the fact that if we want to activate for all these different things that are happening in the world, like spread the word about a different hurricane happening, and let people know what’s happening in the world and do something about it, we do it through social media. And I think that people underestimate how powerful that is.

  I think we all know it’s powerful, but what do you think people did before social media? Do you think people were less connected, or did they connect in different ways?
  I think people maybe had stronger connections as people, but at the same time, the internet is what has helped me meet girls who live all the way across the country or even across the world. The internet really does connect us to everything outside of our bedrooms. I live in New York City, but there are girls who live in the middle of nowhere whose only access to things outside of their small towns is what they see on the internet.

  Do you get the feeling that being a teenager today is different in big, essential ways than it was for previous generations?
  A lot of adults think that being a teenager nowadays is like this crazy new experience because we have all this social media and stuff, but it’s really not that different. What makes it different is the way things are happening, but we’re still teenagers: We’re still girls gossiping about boys, and going to parties that are weird, and freaking out over colleges and test grades, and getting annoyed with our parents. This all still happens.

  Another thing you talk about in the book is feminism. What are the conversations like among people your age about what feminism means? We know that there are young women out there who don’t identify as feminist. Are you trying to convince people to take on that label?
  Oh, yes, definitely. I got in a huge fight with one of my friends freshman year. We were having a conversation about feminism, and she goes, “Well I’m not a feminist.” And I was like, “Why?” And she said, “Because I don’t think it’s attractive, I just don’t think I am. I support equal rights for men and women, I just don’t like calling myself a feminist.” And the way I explain it to my friends—the fact that you believe boys and girls are of equal value, that’s really it, that’s feminism. Obviously now we have a million extended definitions of feminism but when it comes down to it, feminism is the advocacy of rights for all genders.

  What do you think makes people your age reject that label?
  I think a lot of people are inclined to reject that label because they’re afraid of being seen as aggressive or as hating boys. A lot of what being a teenager comes down to is a fear of boys not liking you, or girls for that matter.

  One thing I found fascinating in the book is when you write about how terrifying it is to talk to your parents about sex. As a parent I know that we parents are terrified to talk about our kids about sex. What do you think parents could do to help their teenagers come to them, talk to them, but also navigate their sexual lives in a way that isn’t too intrusive?
  It’s hard. It really depends on what your relationship is with your kid. I’m really close to my mom, so having open discussion about sex was really never a huge, hard thing for us to do. At no point do you want your kid to feel like you’re judging them or to feel like they can’t talk to you. If you want your kid to be having safe sex—I know most parents don’t want their kids to have sex at all!—but if you really want your kid to be safe, the only way to make that happen is to make them feel comfortable asking you any questions.

  I don’t know if you’ve read Peggy Orenstein’s work where she talks about teenage girls growing up in a culture where they think they have to have sex just to make the boys happy, they don’t learn anything about their own pleasure. Do you think there’s a way for parents, maybe especially mothers of girls, to talk to their kids about having sex in a way that’s about pleasure, not pressure?
  Exactly! And [they should] also encourage consent, in that you’re teaching your kids like, okay, if you want to have sex you need to make sure you know that you’re doing it because you want to, and if at any point you want to stop you say so. You need to be checking in with each other at every step of the way. At this age, sex is really a touchy (pun intended!) subject. It’s like, when it’s happening it’s very scary for both people.

  I like how you’re approaching the subject with this blend of humor and an open acknowledgement that it’s terrifying. Is that sort of your way of navigating teenage life?
  Yeah. It really is. The thing is, being a teenager is about understanding that it’s all ironic. All of this is so dumb. Literally in the first chapter of this book I say, please, I know I’m privileged and I know I’m annoying and I know none of my problems matter, but they feel like they do right now, so just live with me through it.

  You write a lot about your mom and your relationship with her. You say straight up she’s your best friend. I think that’s much more common in your generation than it was in mine. It never would have occurred to me to be best friends with my mom! I think a lot of us Gen-Xers grew up feeling like at a certain point we had to rebel against our parents, like that was part of growing up. I’m wondering, how do you grow up if you don’t rebel?
  I don’t know. I feel like rebeling is so specific to where you grow up or who you parents are. Everyone has their own way of rebeling. For me, the turning point was when I started always closing the door to my room, and it was like you need to ask me if you can come in.

  Boundaries.
  Boundaries, yeah.

  How did your mom handle that?
  She was offended, but we got through it. Every teenager will rebel in their own way. Even if you raise the nicest child ever your kid’s going to have a moment where they’re like, “I hate the world, the world hates me,” because that’s what being a teenager is. This goes back to the idea of privilege. Like, obviously I’m privileged and none of my problems are real, but when you’re a teenager your emotions are so heightened that you honestly believe you’re the only person having problems in the world. And there is no way that you can live through being a teenager without going through that.

  That’s interesting, there’s this internal teen angst, but you also talk about turning your gaze outward a little bit and being interested in politics and what’s happening in the world. You’re a year away from being able to vote, right? Are you looking forward to joining the world of voting public?
  Oh my god, yes.

  Are you worried that people your age are turned off by politics?
  I actually think it’s the opposite. People my age are really into politics.

  What are the issues that you’re the most passionate about, that you think are defining for people your age, as you come of age?
  Well, obviously Trump, and how we continue as a society, because we are going backwards in time in terms of our rights. One of the biggest overarching problems is that he’s allowing a part of this country to believe that it’s okay for them to solve problems with hate and violence, and that it’s okay to go back to hating women, Black people, Jewish people, Muslims—discrimination against anyone who isn’t a straight white male.

  What do you think the solution is?
  Education. We need to raise our kids to be less violent, to use their words. We need to start health education, and rape and consent lessons, earlier. And start teaching our kids, literally from a young age, that they are equal to everyone else, you are not superior, you are not below anyone, you are equal.

  Toward the very end of the book you write, “Most of what I talk about in this book will not matter to me in ten years.” Where do you see yourself in ten years? What do you want your life to be like?
  I don’t even know what I’m having for breakfast tomorrow! I know what I want, where I want to be: In a dream world, [I’d be] rich, on SNL, pursuing my dreams successfully without any problems, in love, not being attacked … But, you know, that might not happen.

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  RUBY KARP: 16 THINGS I’VE LEARNED AT 16

  Feminism, friends and family…Ruby Karp, author of Earth Hates Me: True Confessions of a Teenage Girl, deals with all the day-to-day ups and downs of being a teenager, but with a comedic flair that will no doubt make you LOL! No one said it would be easy to be a 16-year-old in 2017 (especially with social media and college pressure like never before), but luckily Ruby is happy to share her wisdom and help guide her fellow sisters of the teenage generation with her hilarious (and true!) stories. No wonder Amy Poehler (one of our fave role models) raves that it’s “filled with juicy young person wisdom.” Ruby took a second to jot down sixteen things she’s learned at 16. Read on for her tips!

  16 THINGS I’VE LEARNED AT 16
  1. Not everyone has to like you. You may not be everyone’s friend in high school. You may encounter bullies, meet people you don’t get along with—who knows. But you will not be able to get through high school if you are concerned with what other people are thinking about you. Not everyone is going to get you. But as long as you understand you, and know that it is okay that not everyone likes you, you can then start enjoying the person you are.

  2. You are special, even if someone doesn’t return your affection. High school heartbreak is rough. Unrequited love is one of the worst things ever. But just because the person you like doesn’t like you does not mean you aren’t worth liking. You are beautiful inside and out—and anyone would be lucky to have you. You just may not have found the right person to like you yet.

  3. Call yourself a feminist. EMBRACE YOUR GIRL POWER! Teach your peers that boys and girls are of equal value. Educate those who don’t know what feminism is and tell them what it means. The future is female and you are the future.

  4. Love your body, and love yourself. This is so much easier said than done, but you must remember to embrace your beauty. Constantly remind yourself that your body is your temple. You (and only you) can validate yourself and your body, so make sure you give yourself some credit for being you.

  5. Some friends are only phases. Not every friend you make in high school is going to be your soul mate. High school friends come and go—and that is okay. You will flow in and out of friendships throughout your whole life. Friend breakups are really hard, but if someone you are supposedly friends with becomes a toxic presence in your life, it can be better to cut ties with that person to enhance your happiness.

  6. Your parents don’t have to be your enemies. I live alone with my mom, and the best choice I ever made was developing a trusting relationship with her. I made her my friend as opposed to my enemy early on, and because of that, we’ve had a strong trust between us throughout my high school years (which made fighting minimal in our household). I would encourage you to do the same. Your parents were kids once too—no matter how much it seems like they have forgotten it.

  7. Take risks more. Enjoy being young! Experience new (legal) things. Face your fears. You only get to be young once, so allow yourself to enjoy it as much as you can.

  8. Feeling sad is normal. Staying positive is really, really hard in high school. You’re not going to feel 100 percent all the time. Your mental health is the most important thing in high school—take care of your happiness first. Mental health days are okay if you are feeling down or need to recharge your batteries.

  9. Delete social media sometimes. Deleting your social media apps is a necessary detox once in a while. Give yourself a break from obsessing over what everyone else is doing for a weekend. Try focusing on enjoying the moments you should be present in, instead of constantly refreshing and typing.

  10. Peer pressure is relative. Peer pressure in high school is a lot less aggressive than you would expect. It is more psychological than anything. It’s not so much like the movies, where peers are screaming, “YOU HAVE TO DRINK THIS!” Know that it is okay to say no to things you do not want to do; nobody cares that much. And if they do, they aren’t worth your time to be around or to try to impress.

  11. Don’t try to be someone you are not. Hang out with people you get along with the best. Don’t try to fit into friend groups that you know aren’t for you. You know yourself best; you know who is bad for you.

  12. Self start. If you have a cool idea, do something about it! If you want to be a writer, start a tumblr. If you want to be a dancer, take a dance class. Get involved in as many activities, groups, or causes as you possibly can. And if you don’t know what you like, try everything! Open yourself up to the possibilities and resources you have in front of you—you may just find something you are truly passionate about.

  13. Stop girl-on-girl hating. Ending slut shaming starts with girls being nice to other girls. If we go through life shaming each other, how do we expect society to respect us? Stand up for your girlfriends and stop them from being mean to each other. Girls need to stick together, now more than ever.

  14. High school doesn’t have to suck (that much). We all talk about high school like it’s the worst place ever. Granted, it has its down sides, but school doesn’t have to be the worst. Learning is a privilege that we all forget we have. Throw yourself into your school work and school activities/groups and get the most out of the education you are lucky to have access to.

  15. There is life after high school. It’s hard to believe in the moment, but there is life after high school. In fact, high school will be the shortest and longest four years of your life. Enjoy it while you are in it and know that life will go on long after it’s over.­­

  16. You are you, and that is enough. It’s easy to forget and you probably hear this more than you would like to, but, it’s important to remember that you don’t need to be any certain thing for anyone else. Make the most of the time you have in high school. Being a teenager means making mistakes and learning from them. Know that as long as you are doing your personal best, that is all that matters.

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  Meet the Internet Famous Teen Who Just Wrote the Guide to Life You Need
  OCT 10
  Meet the Internet Famous Teen Who Just Wrote the Guide to Life You Need
  CULTURE
  Ruby Karp, 17, has been a Teen Expert™ for a decade (even before she was a teen!). Amy Poehler—who happens to be a family friend—cast her in a YouTube series when she was just in elementary school. She then went on to be a teen columnist for websites like HelloGiggles and Mashable, and hasn’t stopped writing since.

  This month the high school senior published her debut book, and she spends pretty much every weekend performing at UCB (and somehow manages to fit in homework). How does she do it? “I literally cry 10 times a day,” she explained when we chatted just before the release of the hilarious and painfully relatable Earth Hates Me. Here’s what else she had to say.

  Your mom, Marcelle, is a pretty prolific writer. Did you read her stuff as inspiration for your first book?
  My mom's magazine, [Bust], when she was there, was all about sex. I'm not allowed to read it until I'm 18. That's the rule. I have to wait until I'm an adult.

  That may be the only thing you've had to wait until adulthood to do. Speaking of, how did you break into comedy at such a young age?
  My mom was best friends with a bunch of famous comedians before they were famous. They were all kids who'd just gotten out of college, figuring out life in the city. My mom at the time was starting Bust, and they all met at parties and became best friends.

  When they started UCB, it was right around the time my mom got pregnant with me. When my dad left, we were there every Sundaynight because my mom had no one to leave me with. My mom would be in the green room, crying. I'd be onstage with Amy [Poehler]. Matt [Besser], Matt [Walsh], and Ian [Roberts]. I was surrounded by comedy from the moment I was born.

  That is so crazy.
  Only recently did I realize this was a big and cool deal. The reason I started writing wasn't because of my mom at all. Amy was starting Smart Girls, and she needed smart kids to be on her show, so she asked me to do it. That went on YouTube when I was 7. Three years later, it went viral; that was around the time when Molly [McAleer], Sophia [Rossi], and Zooey [Deschanel] were starting HelloGiggles, so they asked me to be the child writer.

  A lot of the your stories in your book are super personal. What’s it like to put yourself out there so much?
  I would not consider myself an extremely open person when it comes to emotions. But while the stories are very specific to my life, they're all in the realm of things other people have been through. Obviously not everyone has been cast in a play with their ex-boyfriend. But everyone has had to deal with being near an ex when you're not over them, or feeling confused after your best friend doesn't want to be friends anymore.

  Yes! It's all highly relatable, and as you're reading it, it feels like hearing stories from your best friend. Did you always want to be a writer?
  I wanted to be a rockstar. Writing wasn't a thing for me. I always loved writing, but I was very set on being a rockstar. I started enjoying performing right around the time Amy asked me to do my first monologues at Asssscat, when I was 8. Right around then was when I started enjoying performing. I was a musical theatre kid in school.

  As I got older, I realized the lifestyle of a performer was unstable. I was like, "Oh my god, how do I plan to make money as an adult?" So that's what made me fall in love with writing.

  Who are the female comedians you love, besides Amy?
  Jena Friedman is fantastic. She has very dark humor, and it’s very political. She does what Amy Schumer doesn’t do; when she’s crass, she’s not crass just for the sake of being crass. Shannon O’Neill, the queen of UCB, is one of the funniest women I’ve ever met. Tami Sagher, Aidy Bryant, Sasheer Zamata, Phoebe Robinson, Akilah Hughes, all of them.

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288p. $15.99. 978-0-7624-6260-5.
In this witty memoir, sixteen-year-old Karp writes openly and honestly about life as a white high school
student in New York City. Following a tone-setting question-and-answer session with comedian liana
Glazer, Karp fills ten chapters with sentiment, advice, and general musings on topics ranging from social
media and friendship to teenage romance and family relations. The sprinkling of personal anecdotes about
issues like parties, friend groups, and YouTube humiliation prevents the book from reading like a laundry
list of life lessons. For example, in a particularly poignant chapter on feminism, Karp reflects on power
dynamics and the influence of words as she describes a memorable scene from her high school health class.
Though at times the advice feels cliche, Karps overall message is redeemably positive: "Be the best version
of yourself for yourself at all times. [You] cant always get what [you] want, but it doesn't hurt to never stop
trying."
Karp's winning style comes from her humor-tinged self-awareness of both her age and her privilege; she
acknowledges both and provides reassurance to her peers that their emotions and stressors are as real as
they imagine. Though the pop culture references are doomed to date the book, high school-aged students
seeking validation through shared experiences will find comfort in Karp's easy-going, true confessions.--
Amanda Garrity.
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$16.99 (9780762462605). 173. Gr. 9-12.
Sixteen-year-old Karp has already earned her cred as an author and stand-up comedian, two skills that come
together beautifully in this compassionate self-help book. She has a lot to say to fellow teens about the
pressures of growing up in the twenty-first century. Consider, for example, those awkward middle-school
years preserved forever in tweets and Instagram posts. What adult can understand that? Then there is the
competition for acceptance into a good middle school that morphs into competition for acceptance into a
good high school, all leading up to the big test of college acceptance. Karp understands this all too well.
And she's not going for platitudes such as, "It all gets better," because teens need help in the here and now.
Adopting a self-deprecating humor that is the trademark of stand-up comedy, Karp uses her own
experiences to illustrate the "suffocating stress caused by various pressures." If every reader can't relate to
the intensity of Karp's high-profile performing arts high school, they can certainly get "Ruby's Five Step
Plan for Getting Over Someone (Who Doesn't Deserve Your Excellence)." Generous, insightful, and funny,
Karp is an excellent life coach for contemporary high-school students. --Diane Colson
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Advice for teens is gleaned from the life of 16-year-old UCB Comedy performer Karp in this memoir.
Beginning with a Q-and-A session between Karp and Broad City actress Ilana Glazer, this offering goes on
to discuss everything from white, Jewish Karp's embrace of humor and feminism to her explanation of
FOMO, or "fear of missing out," which she feels is experienced by young people in regard to their use of
social media and the difficulty many have in disconnecting themselves from it. She also parses bullying,
pointing out that it's rarely as clear-cut as is portrayed in popular culture, and frankly discusses sex
education, advocating for the inclusion of much more instruction around rape. She displays a self-aware
understanding both that some of her worries are problems of privilege but also that they are unfairly
dismissed by some adults as teen angst. Teens will appreciate and easily identify with this multilayered
experience of cultural power even if at times the writing feels a bit cliched, as when she exhorts her readers
to "Live your life the way you want to be living it" or to "Be the change." Yet overwhelmingly, Karp's
conversational narrative is positive, direct, and embedded with a confidence that will appeal to like-minded
youth. A thoughtful blend of encouragement and entertaining personal stories. (Memoir. 12-18)
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  Meet Ruby Karp, The 17-Year-Old Who Wrote A Book About Rape
  “Believing in equality is not aggressive.” - One of the many awesome quotes from Ruby Karp.
  Maria Noor
  Maria Noor
  Dec 7, 2017

  Ruby Karp was sitting in class one day learning about consent. She raised her hand and asked her teacher, "...why don't you teach us how not to rape?". She was then kicked out of class for "causing too much disruption". That gave Ruby the inspiration to write a book on her experience growing up as a young woman in a society that still continues to target women and throw both shade and blame at almost every little thing they do.

  Before becoming a professional author of "Earth Hates Me: True Confessions from a Teenage Girl " at the age of only sixteen, Ruby has had quite a lot of accomplishments. At the age of three, she went on UCB as a guest on "Talk Show with Paul Scheer and Jake Fogelnest." She appeared on the first episode of "Shutterbugs" with Aziz Ansari, met Amy Poehler and spoke about being a feminist — at the age of seven! — and she's performed on other UCB shows as well. She has written for various blogs and online platforms ranging from Hello Giggles, Mashable, Refinery29, and SparkNotes. She's been on a Ted Talk, became an ambassador for Dove on positive body image and spoke on the topic at the UN as well.

  "Earth Hates Me" is about teenagers navigating social media and embracing feminism. It's basically like a memoir and self-help book for young women, which we desperately need more of because growing up is hard enough but dealing with social pressures and judgment, it's pretty much hell. Ruby wants to prove to adults that the millennials are interested in more than just their smartphones. In an interview with NowThisHer, Ruby said, "Adults are so quick to call us lazy and boring and just obsessed with our phones. But really I think we're the most innovative generation in years. We're all so active and ambitious and so aware of what's happening in the world because we're surrounded by so much culture and we have so much access to all of it that I think we're living in one of the smartest generations in years." You said it, girl!

  Amy Poehler loves the book too and says, "This book is filled with juicy young person wisdom." "Earth Hates Me" is perfect for young teenagers growing up in the modern age and also a great read for those who used to be a young teen. They will have a great time reminiscing about being a teen and just getting through high school while juggling schoolwork, friendships, relationships, breakups, makeups, etc.

  Here are the topics that discussed in the "Earth Hates Me":

  Young love and heartbreak (which we've all been through — both teens and adults).
  She makes the crucial point that sex-ed classes should discuss both the importance of consent but also teach us how not to rape (because, I totally believe that despite this being 2017, there are some guys and even gals out there that have raped someone or plan on it and do not realize that what they just did or plan on doing is totally wrong!)
  Ruby also touches on the negativity on slut shaming. (There is an excerpt on this here and it's a short and hilarious retelling of the first time she heard the word 'slut' and why she never associated it with something bad or inappropriate.)
  She talks about practicing safe-sex.
  Lots of sections on girl power and embracing the feministic mindset.
  She discusses beauty and self-worth and how it's different for each individual.
  Experiencing unrequited love AKA “the heartbreak of heartbreaks.”
  She talks about mending a shattered heart and includes a healthy dose of her own experiences with failed relationships.
  Failed friendships and how they can hurt just as much as romantic ones. (She also explains how some friendships are only meant to last a little while and not forever, even if they're your best friend.)
  Ruby talks about the pressure to do well in school while also addressing the mess that is the education system and standardized tests. (I am so glad these don't follow us to college!)
  The upsides and downsides of being raised by a single mother.
  There are also plenty of pop culture references thrown in.
  There's even a Q-and-A session between Karp and "Broad City" actress Ilana Glazer.
  So there are plenty of things one could relate to in this book, but it's not just for teens or young adults, old adults can enjoy this too. Ruby touches on this often overlooked point that our parents were once young teens too and it may have been in a different time, but dealing with heartbreaks, societal pressures, schoolwork, and rollercoaster relationships are relevant in any time period. Ruby brilliantly states, “We forget that our parents were once young and had lives where they also felt out of place at a party they didn’t know enough people at. Our parents aren’t minions from another planet, and as hard as it is to remember that, it’s important we try to, so we don’t spend every moment hating them.”

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