If you want a little taste:
• “So Happy Together” at The Nervous Breakdown
• “Separate Housewives” at The Morning News
• “Notes on Selling One’s Identity” at Virginia Quarterly Review
• “Small Time” at The Nervous Breakdown
• “The Sensationalism-to-Get-Buzz Formula” at Virginia Quarterly Review
• “The Village” at Brain, Child
• “Test-Tube Nation” at Salon
• “More Than a Feeling” at Brain, Child
If you want a whole lot of it:
Practically Perfect in Every Way: My Journey Though the World of Self-Help—and Back was published by Putnam in 2007, Berkley in 2008. It’s a memoir about my experience of taking self-help advice and about the ideology that underpins self-help. Salon called my book, “Conversational and funny … but also, at times, serious and contemplative.” The Library Journal described it as “amazingly in-depth yet entertaining with its fresh humor.” You can get it at Amazon or request it from your favorite bookstore.
If for some reason, you’re curious about my thoughts circa 2007-2009:
There’s a defunct blog. I didn’t intend to end it on a Michael Jackson note, but sometimes life is unexpected like that.
