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Benedict navigates the turbulent waters of love, law, psychology, and ethics with wit and penetrating insight in her gripping thriller about marriage and divorce gone awry.

By turns somber and funny but above all provocative, Elizabeth Benedict's Rewriting Illness: A View of My Own is a most unconventional memoir. With wisdom, self-effacing wit, and the story-telling skills of a seasoned novelist, she brings to life her cancer diagnosis and committed hypochondria. As she discovers multiplying lumps in her armpit, she describes her initial terror, interspersed with moments of self-mocking levity as she indulges in...

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Ask a woman about her hair, and she just might tell you the story of her life. Ask a whole bunch of women about their hair, and you could get a history of the world. Surprising, insightful, frequently funny, and always forthright, the essays in Me, My Hair, and I are reflections and revelations about every aspect of women's lives from family, race, religion, and motherhood to culture, health, politics, and sexuality. They take place in African...

Thirty writers look back at the the people, events, and books that launched their literary lives.

Benedict navigates the turbulent waters of love, law, psychology, and ethics with wit and penetrating insight in her gripping thriller about marriage and divorce gone awry.

Hair matters. And these writers go to great lengths to help us understand why.Adriana Trigiani on trendy hair: “I figure when Madonna gets scared about changing her hair, something is about to blow again, like Vesuvius.”Marita Golden on black hair: “Black women’s hair is knotted and gnarled byissues of race, politics, history, and pride.”Anne Kreamer on going gray: “Much to my surprise, when I stopped coloring my hair, time began to slow down,...

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Twelve years after it was first published, The Joy of Writing Sex remains the classic writer's resource on creating compelling sex scenes. Elizabeth Benedict covers all the issues, from the first time, to married sex and adultery, to sex in the age of AIDS.Her instruction, supported with examples from the works of today's most respected writers-among them, Dorothy Allison, Russell Banks, Alan Hollinghurst, Joyce Carol Oates, Carol Shields, and...

A story about starting over and looking back, about the pain of staying and the consequences of leaving, and about a woman's longing for children, "Almost" presses readers to wonder how much responsibility they bear for other people's happiness. By this riveting novel's end, Sophy has it all figured out--almost.