It Was Over When…: Tales of Romantic Dead Ends

A snapshot of modern romance gone bad, complete with its complexities and contradictions, It Was Over When… compiles the best user-submitted stories of lost love from its companion website (www.itwasoverwhen.com), to create a greatest hits collection of cringe-inducing love schadenfreude. The moment you realize you’ve got a bad romance can be funny, sad, and sometimes both—but it is nearly always resonant, therapeutic, and universal. This is a spot-on voyeuristic guide to navigating the landmine riddled field of love.

Get your copy

Other Books

A Friendly Game of Poker: 52 Takes on the Neighborhood Game

Des Plaines River Anthology

It Was Love When...: Tales from the Beginning of Love

Robert K. Elder is a journalist in the noblest tradition. . . . What I will remember most about this book is its poetry in the speech of people at the most traumatic moment of their lives.”

How necessary this book is! And how well-judged and written! Some of the best films ever made, as Elder proves, are lamentably all but unknown.”

An invaluable book for anyone interested in Hemingway or the development of a major creative mind.”

How necessary this book is! And how well-judged and written! Some of the best films ever made, as Elder proves, are lamentably all but unknown.”

An invaluable book for anyone interested in Hemingway or the development of a major creative mind.”

it’s a privilege to look through [Hemingway’s] closet and read his stuff and discover him as a mortal man.”