I’m always happy to promote books about college and the college process. “Now What?”, a book by Ari King, gives a unique perspective by using more than 60 interviews with new and established college graduates about adjust to college, preparing for graduation, and figuring out what to do next. Here’s some info about the book and how you can purchase a copy. 

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Now What?! Conversations about College, Graduation, and the Next Step (June 2013) shares the highs and lows of the transition from college to the “real world” and shows the breadth of roadmaps college graduates use to make their way in the world after commencement. From the budding marine biologist who studied abroad in St. Croix to the theater director who started out driving actors around, each interview in Now What?! shares honest, practical, and often humorous advice about navigating every aspect of college, coping with graduation, and moving forward in the “real world.”

Now What?! features interviews with Bobbito García, a writer and Renaissance man put on academic probation twice; Kathy Keeler, a job-hopping rower and Olympic gold medalist; Will & Grace creator/producer David Kohan, who got his first break from Sydney Pollack; U.S. Attorney Tristram Coffin, who went building to building in Lower Manhattan to get his first paralegal job; Peapod, Inc. founders Andrew and Thomas Parkinson, whose entrepreneurial streaks started in college; Jane Eisner, editor-in-chief of The Forward, who graduated early to take a newspaper job; actor Bradley Whitford, who lived off ramen and peanut butter after graduation; travel photographer Michael Yamashita, who discovered his passion while unloading cargo in Japan; Daniel Handler, also known as Lemony Snicket, who worked as a dance class pianist, laundry assistant, and bartender while starting his writing career; Kathleen Clyde, a state representative who contemplated fashion instead of politics; author Sebastian Junger, who started out working in construction; Dina Kaplan, who contemplated TV reporting and ballet and later founded Blip; former Ethicist columnist Randy Cohen, who was studying music when he realized he had no musical talent; and Peter Schube, President and COO of The Jim Henson Company, who reluctantly lived with his mother after college while working as a paralegal.

“Everyone has a story to tell about college and the first year out. For some, it was a struggle capped with anxiety, doubt, questions, and feelings of failure. For others, it was a year spent traveling, preparing for graduate school, working a random job, and dealing with the unknown,” King said. “I wrote this book after thinking about how there are guidebooks to cities, and that there should be something comparable for those who are finishing college.”

Now What?! Conversations about College, Graduation, and the Next Step is now available for purchase online at www.amazon.com. Even though Amazon says “temporarily out of stock”, you may still go through with the ordering process and purchase the book and it will be shipped next week. For more information about the book, visit www.ariking.com or e-mail info@ariking.com.