A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love All narrative writing must pull from the raw materi

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Studies the relation between teller and listener in a set of French, English, and American short stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

A full-scale investigation of the controversial and often misunderstood science of attachment theory, inspired by the author’s own experience as a parent and

The headline standup comic and frequent talk-show guest traces his youth as a gay Jewish boy with ADD and dyslexia in 1970s Philadelphia, describing his early a