Darkness so Profound

by Ned Vizzini

Darkness has overcome me. It's got me by the throat and pulls me under, deep, deep, deep into oblivion. I struggle, I listen to music, I walk around the block, I write happy stories about presidents and princesses. I try to get into a happy thinking rhythm. But I'm exhausted and get swallowed by darkness again. Must I always be sad? Always?

24 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 20, 2013

About the author

Vizzini grew up primarily in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. He attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, graduating in 1999. While still a teenager, he began to write articles for the New York Press, an alternative newspaper.

After he wrote an essay that got published by the New York Times Magazine, several of his essays about his young adult life ended up being combined into his first book, Teen Angst? Naaah.... Vizzini attended Hunter College, also located in Manhattan. Ned Vizzini lived in New York City. Vizzini's characters and situations are said be based upon his time spent at Stuyvesant.