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There’s a book for that

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marigold1900:

How to Talk Yourself Out of …

plastic surgery: The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells

tattoos: In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

haircuts: Sweeney Todd (multiple authors)

Oooh, let’s make this a thing…

prep school: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

hooking up with exes: The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

holding a grudge: Moby Dick by Herman Melville

marriage: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

cheating: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

manic pixie dream girls: Breakfast At Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

extramarital affairs: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. (See also: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert)

trusting teenagers: Lord of the Flies by William Golding

politics: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

There’s a book for that

marigold1900:

How to Talk Yourself Out of …

plastic surgery: The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells

tattoos: In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

haircuts: Sweeney Todd (multiple authors)

Oooh, let’s make this a thing…

prep school: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

hooking up with exes: The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

holding a grudge: Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Bibliotherapy

An expressive therapy that uses an individual’s relationship to the content of books and poetry as therapy.

“You know the fact that very small children make brilliant art and slightly bigger children, when they get slightly bigger, they can’t do it anymore?

Yes, it’s in part because they learn: this is how you draw a tree. This is how you draw a house. This is how you draw the sun. On the one hand, they want to please, and on the other, they fall prey to convention. What was unique and particular about the scrawls that they made or their bursts of color or whatever, slowly is normalized and the little pictures they draw become less interesting. And less interesting to them as well, which is why so many kids stop making art. Which means that the ones who don’t stop making art are pretty interesting because they’re holding onto something that others are losing, which is some sense that there is a way to convey experience that is outside convention, that isn’t a purely conventional expression.”

An excerpt from our interview with Claire Messud about her new book, The Woman Upstairs: http://powells.us/13zSRIS