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Living life by magazine advice
In Up For Renewal: What Magazines Taught Me About Love, Sex and Starting Over, author Cathy Alter (whose work has appeared in the Washington Post and McSweeney’s, among other publications) chronicles her 12-month experiment in letting magazines guide her life, from the sex advice columns (“find his secret seven pleasure triggers”
to how to get along with your mother. The results were, predictably, hilarious.
Also new in nonfiction this week, but far more serious, is Vets Under Siege: How America Deceives And Dishonors Those Who Fight Our Battles, which is about….well, the subtitle tells all, doesn’t it.
