Daphne Merkin, Author Crown Publishers $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-517-70626-8
In these idiosyncratic essays, Merkin (Enchantment) muses about sex, marriage, pregnancy, divorce, books, writers, celebrities, breast reduction, diets and other disparate topics. Some of her opinionated essays, such as fantasies about spanking...
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Daphne Merkin, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $16.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-15-128791-8
This piercing evocation of family life chronicles a child's obsessive enchantment with her mothera ""hopelessly entangling skein of anger and need and pain.'' If this memory of self-described, anal-retentive Hannah Lehmann, who grows up in material...
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Daphne Merkin. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (416p) ISBN 978-0-374-14037-3
For her first essay collection in more than 15 years, noted literary and cultural critic Merkin (Dreaming of Hitler: Passions and Provocations) assembles a diverse array of work, most of it previously published. Included are profiles of Richard...
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Daphne Merkin. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-14036-6
Merkin’s deeply intimate account of living with clinical depression is illuminating, heartbreaking, and powerfully written. With lively prose and shrewd observations, Merkin (Dreaming of Hitler) examines the contending discourses on the potential...
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Daphne Merkin. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-91053-2
Merkin’s ambitious and erotic tale (after her memoir This Close to Happy) looks back on 1990s New York City to chronicle an obsessive, torturous love affair between Judith Stone, a young book editor, and criminal defense attorney Howard Rose, 13...
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