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I'm a psychologist and neuroscientist who writes about parenting, neuroscience, biology, relationships and politics. I'm also the author of the forthcoming book Dad Brain, an entertaining look into the science and culture of fatherhood.
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Everything I’ve learned about launching a book (part II) (opens the original)
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Welcome back to the second installment of my best advice on book promotion, based on everything I’ve learned over the past year. In Part 1, I told you about why I decided to hire a publicist, what I did in the long lead-up to my book launch, and how I approached building a platform as an author. In this installment, I’ll tell you everything I did in the month right before launch (including taping podcasts, overcoming the cringiness of seeing myself on camera, and organizing a ‘Substack book tour
Everything I’ve learned about how to launch a book (opens the original)
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Shortly after getting my book deal, in the flush of ‘I’m going to become a famous author’ excitement, I ran into an acquaintance at a yard sale. I knew from mutual friends that she had recently published her first book, and I asked her how it was going. Instead of the enthusiasm I expected, she made a disappointed face. After landing a six-figure book deal, she expected a correspondingly big promotional investment from her publisher, but that investment never materialized. Instead, her book laun
Is a baby-friendly world inconceivable? (opens the original)
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With AOC in the discourse for documenting her egg-freezing journey, Anna Louie Sussman’s new book Inconceivable: The Impossibility of Family in an Age of Uncertainty, a riveting exploration of contemporary barriers to parenthood, feels especially timely. As the book opens, 34-year-old Sussman, a journalist, is headed to Europe to freeze her own eggs. By the book’s end, she is adjusting to life as the single mom of a three year old in New York City. In between, she travels around the world to und
The paradox of contemporary parenthood (opens the original)
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As a child, my number one goal was to be adopted by the Amish so that I could live like my idol Laura Ingalls Wilder. In a recurring daydream, I wandered into Amish country by mistake (usually because my parents left me behind in a rural highway rest stop bathroom, something that would be totally on brand for them), only to be welcomed into the bosom of a kind-hearted family. I proved to be so helpful around the farm that the family let me join their barn-raising. This fantasy was never all that
Is postpartum depression real? (opens the original)
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So, is postpartum depression real? This could be a one-word1 essay: Yes. Also “yep,” “yeppers,” and “of course.” You might be surprised by that answer, however, if you’ve been scrolling X, where folks are claiming that postpartum depression is a made-up condition that occurs when selfish women have to take care of someone else for a change. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JYBD!,
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