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Lori Gottlieb

Lori Gottlieb
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Lori Gottlieb

Lori Gottlieb is author of the national bestseller, Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self, an American Library Association "Best Books 2001" selection and a Borders "Original New Voice" title. Based on her childhood diaries, Stick Figure was optioned for film by Martin Scorsese, who described Lori’s quirky teen narrator as "Holden Caulfield goes on a misguided diet." Lori is a regular commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered, and her radio features have aired on public radio’s This American Life, Weekend Edition, The Tavis Smiley Show and Marketplace. As a journalist and columnist, Lori has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times,... Read full bio

Stick Figure is now available in Trade Paperback
Nov 17, 2009
Stick Figure will be released on November 17, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Nov 17, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 20 from Stick Figure
Jan 16, 2009
Stick Figure will be released on September 25, 2008 in eBook
Sep 25, 2008
Stick Figure is now available in eBook
Sep 25, 2008

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Mail & Guardian Online, April 25, 2012
...print to troll female readers. The Atlantic has developed quite a taste for this, with articles such as Lori Gottlieb's "Marry Him!", Kate Bolick's "All the Single Women" and another one planned for the summer. But it was beaten by Newsweek this week,...
National Times, April 21, 2012
...print to troll female readers. The Atlantic has developed quite a taste for this, with articles such as Lori Gottlieb's Marry him!, Kate Bolick's All the single ladies and another one planned for the summer. But it was beaten by Newsweek this week, with...
Poten & Partners, April 18, 2012
...print to troll female readers. The Atlantic has developed quite a taste for this, with articles such as Lori Gottlieb's Marry Him!, Kate Bolick's All the Single Women and another one planned for the summer. But it was beaten by Newsweek this week with...
ArticleSnatch.com, March 15, 2012
...mixes memoir and science, and Marya Hornbacher's Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (HarperCollins, 1998) and Lori Gottlieb's Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self (S & S, 2000), which continue to draw teen girls into the authors' harrowing...
Jezebel, January 18, 2012
...you against the worst emotional effects of sexual betrayal. 
 This old adage is an unhappy book-end to Lori Gottlieb's viral advice to "settle" and marry Mr. Good Enough. Gottlieb urges women to take advantage of their peak years of desirability (not...
The Australian, December 27, 2011
...a child. That said, a piece in The Atlantic Monthly, How to Land Your Kid in Therapy by Lori Gottlieb, makes for compulsive reading if you're a parent. Gottlieb, a psychotherapist and mother, started to meet patients who shouldn't have been in her...
TeleRead, December 19, 2011
...example of the possibilities of E. In-person book clubs for kids. Recording a promotional YouTube for Sony, author Lori Gottlieb offered generic tips such as the need to round up kids with similar interests and then focus on those topics in the club. But...
Inside Higher Ed, February 27, 2012
...as The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially. Journalists such as Lori Gottlieb write books like Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough. And perhaps the most well know sociology book of the...
Jezebel, February 22, 2012
...in that light, the rise in unwed motherhood and the declining marriage rate are cause for rejoicing. Despite Lori Gottlieb's famous plea, fewer women than ever are willing to settle for merely "good enough." It's not that men are less economically viable...
AOL.com, February 20, 2012
...do I combat this trend and raise independent children, while still being an active participant in their childhood? Lori Gottlieb, author of How to Land Your Kid in Therapy, offers many suggestions to find this balance. Here are a few I intend to follow:...
AOL.com, February 20, 2012
...do I combat this trend and raise independent children, while still being an active participant in their childhood? Lori Gottlieb, author of How to Land Your Kid in Therapy, offers many suggestions to find this balance. Here are a few I intend to follow:...
Huffington Post, February 15, 2012
...do I combat this trend and raise independent children, while still being an active participant in their childhood? Lori Gottlieb, author of , offers many suggestions to find this balance. Here are a few I intend to follow: Allow the child to fight her...
Huffington Post, February 15, 2012
...do I combat this trend and raise independent children, while still being an active participant in their childhood? Lori Gottlieb, author of , offers many suggestions to find this balance. Here are a few I intend to follow: Allow the child to fight her...
Huffington Post, February 15, 2012
...do I combat this trend and raise independent children, while still being an active participant in their childhood? Lori Gottlieb, author of , offers many suggestions to find this balance. Here are a few I intend to follow: Allow the child to fight her...