A fascinating profile of Nan Talese, a trail-blazer in publishing, and one-half of one of the most interesting, highly public marriages in history. The piece comes just as her husband, famously non-monogamous Thy Neighbor’s Wife author Gay Talese, prepares to write a book about their long, complicated, and very flexible union.
marriage
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
A Conversation With Ariel Levy About Writing a Memoir That Avoids ‘Invoking Emotional Tropes’
The New Yorker staff writer on her new memoir, ‘The Rules Do Not Apply.’
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
All You Have to Bring is Your Love of Everything
Ada Calhoun writes, in Elle, about a weekend getaway with her husband to the kind of “romantic” Poconos resort she used to see advertised on television as a kid. Could a couple of nights away from their kid and all the post-election news — not to mention sleeping on a bed beneath a mirrored ceiling, […]
Posted inEditor's Pick
My Weekend at a Sex Lodge
Feeling depressed post-election and run down by the rigors of parenthood, Ada Calhoun and her husband try to rekindle their spark at the kind of “romantic” Poconos resort she saw advertised on television as a kid–champagne-glass-shaped jacuzzi and all.
Posted inQuote Posts
Basking in Reciprocated Love: Can Molly Save a Marriage?
At Lenny, read an excerpt of Ayelet Waldman’s memoir of LSD microdosing, A Really Good Day.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Can Molly Save a Marriage?
An excerpt from A Really Good Day, Ayelet Waldman’s memoir on experimenting with microdoses of LSD to treat a mood disorder.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Nonfiction, Quotes
Is Infidelity A Search for Identity? On Coupling: An Inventory
At Guernica, Melissa Matthewson explores infidelity in the search for her identity.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Is Infidelity A Search for Identity? On Coupling: An Inventory
At Guernica, Melissa Matthewson explores infidelity in the search for her identity.
Posted inQuotes
The Story of a Marriage: Jenny Offill’s ‘Dept. of Speculation’
“The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.” From Jenny Offill’s wonderful 2014 novel Dept. of Speculation — the story of a married couple in Brooklyn, told through snippets of wisdom, anger, love, and bedbugs. In […]
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Quotes
Errors Renewed: James Salter on Children, Futurity, and Hope
James Salter’s Light Years (1975) is a generous, intimate portrayal of a family that bends and splinters under the weight of its own differences and desires. This book exacerbated anxieties about marriage that I didn’t even know I had; thankfully, the novel’s emotional devastation is delivered in seductive, glorious prose. In the passage below, a sort […]