Lush and uncensored essays (Village Voice) on spanking during sex, shopping, Martin Scorcese, Israel, breast reduction, Gary Gilmore, depression, and other matters, by one of the few contemporary essayists who have (and deserve) a following (New York). Everything Daphne Merkin writes is so smart, it shines (Washington Post Book World). "
Lush and uncensored essays (Village Voice) on spanking during sex, shopping, Martin Scorcese, Israel, breast reduction, Gary Gilmore, depression, and ...
Daphne Merkin brings her signature combination of wit, candor, and penetrating intelligence to subjects that touch on every aspect of contemporary culture, from the high calling of the literary life to the poignant underside of celebrity and our collective fixation on fame.
Merkin's elegant, widely admired profiles go beneath the glossy facades to consider their vulnerabilities and demons, as well as their enduring hold on us. Here one will encounter a gallery of complex, unforgettable celebrities, from Marilyn Monroe to...
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Daphne Merkin brings her signature combination of wit, candor, and penetrating intell...
A Reckoning with Depression. Daphne Merkin has been hospitalised three times first, in grade school, for childhood depression years later, after her daughter was born, for severe postpartum depression and later still, after her mother died, for obsessive suicidal thinking. Recounting this series of hospitalisations, as well as her visits to myriad therapists and psychopharmacologists, Merkin fearlessly offers what the child psychiatrist Harold Koplewicz calls the inside view of navigating a chronic psychiatric illness to a realistic outcome. The opposite of depression, she writes with...
A Reckoning with Depression. Daphne Merkin has been hospitalised three times first, in grade school, for childhood depression years later, after her d...
