Having a child forces you to confront all of those abstract threats you might have previously labored to ignore: physical entropy, the planetary future, human ...
Beth Blum
Beth Blum is an assistant professor of English at Harvard University. She is finishing a book manuscript about the joint history of modern literature and self-help. Pieces pertaining to this research have appeared in Modernism/Modernity, MLQ, and Aeon Ideas, with another forthcoming in PMLA. 
The New Self-Help
Now that self-help personalities Helen Gurley Brown and Pauline Phillips, the original Dear Abby, are gone, who will the new generation of millennial readers look to for advice? Some surprising ...