Word: self-help
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...Novelists, for one. Poets and playwrights and politicians. Historians and scientists and self-help gurus. Celebrity confidantes and women’s hockey players...
...Beck didn’t mind. He gave the third part of the call-and-response section, anyway: “Going on, feeling strong!” Ten years ago, those words had an ironic tone, poking fun at jock jams and new age self-help tapes. But now, oddly enough, they rang true. And that was beautiful...
...talking in section, this behavior makes you seem mad thirsty, but in this case, the juice is not worth the squeeze. We didn’t even comp FM and now we have a column—back of the net! Like Farrah Gray, author of the nine-step self-help book “Reallionaire,” we “took real lemons and made some real lemonade.” The precocious Gray started out selling moisturizer on the streets and was a millionaire by the age of 14! In fact, if you do one thing...
DIED. M. SCOTT PECK, 69, ex-military psychiatrist credited with pioneering publishing's self-help genre with his best-selling 1978 life manual, The Road Less Traveled; of pancreatic and liver cancer; in Warren, Conn. Although he freely admitted he was not always able to heed his own advice--he acknowledged having such bad habits as drinking and womanizing--Peck differed from his successors by emphasizing the arduous task of self-examination, insisting that "life is difficult...
Poetry used to be the emperor of the literary universe, but lately it has been overshadowed by almost every other genre - novels, comic books, self-help - or just channeled into other media, like rock and hip-hop. These days most bookstores stock a few odd volumes on a back shelf, and most of those are written by singer Jewel. But people are still writing poetry and finding ways to say things no other medium can - if you have the time to stop and listen...