Jennifer Niesslein is the Charlottesville author of Practically Perfect in Every Way: My Misadventures Through the World of Self-Help — and Back and one of the founders of Brain, Child magazine. She’ll also be appearing at the Virginia Festival of the Book.
In the meantime, Niesslein is staying busy writing features for the Sunday Post Outlook section. I thought her critique of self-help (“It’s a slippery slope from Claiming Personal Responsibility to Every Man for Himself”) and her thoughts on the pursuit of happiness fit in very well with another book that’s making the rounds lately: Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy, by Eric G. Wilson.
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Thanks, Elizabeth! I love this blog–and the redesign rocks!