as we're all painfully aware, the degree of change we have experenced in our lifetimes is staggering (and seemingly faster every day!). floored by the shocking speed? long for the good old days of mix tapes? privacy? cash? human operators? getting lost? camera film?

have we got a book for you -in this totally fun read, journalist and commentator Anna Jane Grossman takes a look at the commonplace apparatuses, ideas and activities that are disappearing around us and a few of those that heve recently departed.

essays and entries on more than 100 alphabetized ode to obsolescence with 25 quirky pen-and-ink line illustrations to further help us remember exactly what we’re missing.

192 pages in hardcover. 5 1/2" x 8"