Daphne Merkin: 3 books
This Close to Happy
A Reckoning with Depression
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
A New York Times Book Review Favorite Read of 2016
“Despair is always described as dull,” writes Daphne Merkin, “when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver.” This Close to Happy—Merkin’s rare, vividly personal account of what...
The Fame Lunches
On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, and the Importance of Handbags
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A wide-ranging collection of essays by one of America's most perceptive critics of popular and literary culture
From one of America's most insightful and independent-minded critics comes a remarkable new collection of essays, her first in more than fifteen years. Daphne Merkin brings her signature...
by Robert Coover, Maureen Gibbon, Jay McInerney
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
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