This is a new kind of dating book. It’s not about the apps. It’s about you.
DATING IN THE 21ST CENTURY:
Unconventional Advice on How to Make Dating Apps Work for You and What They Can Teach You About Yourself
by Jess Carbino
Simon Element/S&S, Winter 2027
(via Levine Greenberg Rostan)
Dating in the 21st Century will blend serious social science and unconventional advice in a fresh, relatable and, most of all, clarion dating handbook that does not demonize the dating apps, instead providing a groundwork for navigating the apps and laying out a roadmap for your dating journey: specific guidelines, along with worksheets and checklists.
Scrolling endlessly through images and profiles of complete strangers can be terrifying, frustrating, and exhausting. Dating in the 21st Century will bring empathy and encouragement as it guides readers toward a new awareness of what that little app on their phone can do to change their lives.
In some ways, this book has more in common with Carol Dweck’s Mindset, Nidra Tawab’s Set Boundaries, Find Peace, and Nicole LaPera’s How to Do the Work than it does with other dating books. It is about blwoing up your preconceptions, understanding yourself more deeply, and knowing how to present your authentic self.
Jess Carbino is a renowned relationship and online dating expert. Dr. Carbino, who’s often referred to as “Dr. Jess,” has been called “the Dr. Ruth of the swipe right generation” by The New York Post and “the Nate Silver of online dating” by the host of This American Life. She is the former sociologist for the dating apps Bumble and Tinder. Dr. Jess received her PhD in sociology from UCLA. Her doctoral research has broadly focused on sex, dating and relationships. She has become the go-to for media on dating, and has been profiled multiple times by publications including Los Angeles Magazine, the New York Post, Fast Company, and she has been interviewed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Wired, Well + Good, Today, CBS News, GMA, and more. She is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and attended Emory University, where she graduated with High Honors in just three years.