Author Event: Saturday, July 18, 2026 from 11am to 2pm

Please join us on Saturday, July 18, 2026 from 11am to 2pm when author David Schmaltz will be signing copies of Cluelessness.

What kind of person writes a book about Cluelessness? Not someone who has conquered it. Someone still living within it, noticing it daily, and finding that the real difficulty was never the Cluelessness itself but how poorly most of us cope with its inevitable presence.

David Schmaltz has spent decades observing the ways humans navigate a universe far more complex than any of us can fully comprehend. In Cluelessness: A Book of Mirrors, he turns that observation inward, offering ninety short essays that catch the author - and the reader - in the act of not knowing, misreading, over-planning, under-noticing, and stumbling forward anyway.

This is not a self-help book. There are no twelve steps, no prescriptions, no promises of transformation. It offers something rarer: a sustained, wry, warm-hearted investigation into what it actually feels like to be a finite human being embedded in an infinite, indifferent, and occasionally delightful universe. Schmaltz writes about cooking for a crowd without sleeping the night before, about the studied Cluelessness that lets us ignore what we cannot afford to know, about the difference between problems and difficulties, about why driving the speed limit might qualify as a moral act, and about why the most important things we were ever taught arrived without anyone noticing the teaching.