And that’s one of those weird paradoxes that messes with you. It was weird because going into it I one hundred percent knew it would be harder than I thought.

Mantra: I am not alone, we are not alone.”) When not starring in movies like Pitch Perfect ( 1, 2 and the forthcoming 3) and Up in the Air (for which she got an Oscar nod), the actress is best known for her very funny, very relatable, very much celebrated Twitter feed, home of such nuggets as: “Based on my experience in school, I assumed a three-hole punch would figure into my everyday life more often than it has.” (It’s worth noting that she’s also expressed some equally relatable, not at all funny sentiments of late, like this tweet from the morning after Hillary Clinton conceded the presidential race to Donald Trump: “Woke up feeling like I’d had a nightmare. I would definitely give credit to my editor for being like: I think this story is about guilt! And I’d be like, oh yeah, you’re right.”Įasily digestible thoughts come easily to Kendrick. “I always knew there were certain callbacks, comedy goals. “I can always keep track of the smaller things,” she said of her process. That was what she had to remind herself repeatedly while writing her new book, a charming, funny and sometimes probing collection of personal essays titled Scrappy Little Nobody, that hits stores today. “Even though what you experience online every day traffics in outrage, in easily digestible thoughts, people do want to experience complicated stories,” the actress Anna Kendrick observed a few weeks ago by phone.

Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick