Book 1 I am passing on from my ‘hoarder’s bookshelf’ is Dreaming of HitIer by Daphne Merkin.
I found Daphne Merkin’s book on a bookshelf in Barnes & Noble, New York City. The provocative title was enough for me. Anyone who had the chutzpah to write about her breast reduction, fascination with being spanked, and why she was not a lesbian was going to interest me.
Revelations aside, Merkin can also write, and all the essays in this eclectic collection are funny and thought provoking.
Merkin still writes features for The New York Times, and more recently wrote about her own personal struggle with depression.
In my writing groups, ‘Dreaming of Hitler’ is the book I recommend to writers who are stuck, scared of saying what they really want to say for fear of shocking or offending their readers. Merkin has given us all permission to lift our petticoats on our own judgment and say it anyway.
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