After romance novels, there may be no genre of writing more pilloried yet beloved than self-help. Society turned sour and sardonic, but self-help kept chugging along. The culture is now extremely online and beset with influencers selling us skin cream and the good life, yet the self-help section at the local Barnes & Noble is bigger than ever.
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St. Martin’s Press
288 pages
I find this pattern even within myself. I’m an academic. I’m supposed to like big ideas and rich prose, and I do. I’m inclined
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