The awkwardness of dating in the age of smartphones has provided comedian Aziz Ansari with lots of material. His new book, written with a sociologist coauthor, reveals some surprises about romance today.
Ansari began to ask his audiences about their own romantic texts gone awry, and realized he wasn’t just mining their dating lives for comedic material—rather, he was interested in the now near-universal experience of looking for love with technological assistance.
