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Absent fathers and family fictions
Novelist Sylvia Brownrigg found a scrapbook. Its revelations forced her to extract the truth from the family fictions she'd been told her whole life…
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Liana Finck, Cartoonist/Philosopher/Genius
HOW TO BABY, Liana Finck's hilarious, no-advice book, provides a profound message about the ravages of parental inequality.
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Old Flames, New Strains
Roxana Robinson has written a brilliant novel about the complexities of late-in-life love. It felt so real, I had to speak with her to find out more…
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Class, Money, Privilege, and the Poor Among Us
Alissa Quart wants us to think not only about downward mobility, industry shifts, and low wage white collar jobs, but also about what not having money…
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Ali's Flair in Love and War
In THE BALLAD OF SPEEDBALL BABY, Ali Smith--punk rock darling turned photographer turned memoirist--sings a paean to the East Village, bad lovers…
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The Quietest Paperback Release Ever
If a paperback falls in the forest, and no one hears it, does it even exist? (Yes! It exists! And I'm asking for your help getting it into bookstores…
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When a Woman Betrays a Woman
Tales of men betraying women are as old as heteronormative love and time. But when a woman betrays another woman, what does she--or rather the…
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The Power of Forgiveness
Rachel Louise Snyder lost her Jewish mother at 8 and was kicked out of her evangelical father's home at 16 after years of physical abuse. What she did…
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Old Dog + New Tricks = Life Hack
One day, in the thick of middle age, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik had an epiphany. Society urges us to achieve. At all costs. What if, instead, we…
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When Gretchen Came to her Senses
After a scary visit with her eye doctor, Gretchen Rubin, bestselling author of THE HAPPINESS PROJECT, had a radical epiphany. In her quest for joy, had…
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Duff Love
Karen Duffy, who has steadfastly refused to let the chronic pain of sarcoidosis rule her life, finds strength, comfort, gratitude, and love in the…
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Remembrance of Slings Past
Priscilla Gilman found her voice mining a past rich with her parents' famous friends, haunted by their divorce, and marked by both her father's love for…
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