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Reading Non-Fiction for Pleasure
by, Danielle Sherwood
April 17, 2012

I’m going to ‘fess up: I don’t read enough nonfiction for pleasure. Fiction has always been more compelling to me. The fantasy, the adventure, the imagination, the characters – this is the stuff of storytelling. But there are some exceptional books of non-fiction and memoir that trump my fandom of fiction. Here’s my top 4 picks for NF and memoir. These books are not only… [Read More]

Filed Under: addiction, appetites: why women want, Azar Nafisi, beautiful boy, book selections, Caroline Knapp, compelling narrative, cultural studies, David Sheff, female hunger, feminism, forbidden books, Jon Ronson, memoir, Nic Sheff, Nonfiction, psychiatry, psychology, psychopathy, reading lolita in tehran, reviews, the psychopath test
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Review: Marriage Rules by Harriet Lerner
by, Ruth Goldhor Chlebowski
February 7, 2012

I begin with two confessional caveats. One, Harriet Goldhor Lerner is my second cousin; we communicate by email, but have never met. Two, I am not Marriage Rules’ (Penguin, 2012) target audience even though my husband of 16 years and I have been in marriage counseling for two years. In 1985, Harriet (she’s family, I can call her by her first name) took the world of… [Read More]

Filed Under: counseling, couples, Dance of Anger, feminist psychology, Harriet Goldhor Lerner, Harriet Lerner, marriage, Marriage Rules, psychology, relationships, therapy
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