Questionnaire

Evan Kindley is Senior Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books and Visiting Instructor in the Literature Department at Claremont McKenna College, USA. He has published essays and reviews in n+1, the London Review of Books, Dissent, Bookforum, the New Republic, and the Los Angeles Times.

A marvelous book that gathers an unexpected array of materials under the heading of the questionnaire: from IQ tests to the early days of marriage counseling, from data-mining Facebook quizzes to Scientology's rigged personality tests. Playful, smart and rich with dizzying connections, Evan Kindley’s Questionnaire is no less than a secret history of how we became a nation of oversharers.

• Introduction: The Form as Form1. Private Publicity2. The Rise and Fall of Testing3. Your Opinion of You4. The Art of Asking5. Pandora’s Checklist6. Dating and Data7. Quiz ManiaAcknowledgmentsEndnotesIndex