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Happiness interview: Meghan O’Rourke. Meghan O’Rourke is a writer in many incarnations — an essayist, poet, critic, and editor. I got to know Meghan during the time that this blog appeared on Slate , and I was very eager to get my hands on her new book. The Long Goodbye is a memoir of her mother’s death from cancer in …
Happiness interview: Ruth Davis Konigsberg. I’ve known writer Ruth Davis Konigsberg for several years, and I couldn’t wait to read her new book, The Truth About Grief: The Myth of Its Five Stages and the New Science of Loss. One of my happiness-project resolutions is to Read memoirs of catastrophe, so I’ve thought a lot about how different people experience …
