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View ArticleUnlove Me: Too Big Not To Fail
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View ArticleSeveral Good Reasons to Avoid Marriage
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View ArticlePark Slope Leads in Internet Extramarital Affairs
More Park Slope residents subscribe to a website that promotes extramarital sex than do those from any other neighborhood in Brooklyn, the New York Post reports. AshleyMadison.com, a dating website...
View ArticleMarriage Can’t Be the Solution to Poverty
How has New York (and, indeed, America) lost its middle class? This is the big question these days, especially as rents continue to rise, wage stagnation continues, and it increasingly seems like we...
View ArticleLaurie Anderson Made Us Believe In Love Again
A few years ago, I went with a friend to see Laurie Anderson perform with Anne Carson at a small venue on Avenue A. There were maybe 40 folding chairs set up for the audience. I wondered if Lou Reed...
View ArticleThe Marriage Trap: No, Your Life Probably Won’t Be Like Beyoncé’s After You...
Mr. and Mrs. Carter Last night, America’s first couple—Beyoncé and Jay Z, obviously—took the stage at the Grammys, performing “Drunk In Love,” a song which includes sentiments familiar to everyone...
View ArticleThe 10 Best Spots in Brooklyn to Take Your Wedding Photos
A location scout could scout 100 films in Brooklyn without one looking like any of the others. When it comes to backdrops, the borough has a little bit of everything: industrial side streets,...
View ArticleThe Anatomy of Marriage: The 10 Most Dysfunctional Married Couples in Literature
Most fictional marriages are not like that of Nick and Nora Charles. To paraphrase Tolstoy, all happy marriages are alike; each unhappy marriage is unhappy in its own way, which is why dysfunctional...
View ArticleUnlove Me: Too Big Not To Fail
Illustration by Sarah Lutkenhaus “I’ll be more surprised if we succeed than if we fail,” I scrawled in a beat-up notebook last year. It was one of my many reactions to the new, deeply passionate...
View ArticleSeveral Good Reasons to Avoid Marriage
Arthur Schopenhauer, famous for his positive outlook and sunny disposition* said, “Marrying means to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find an eel amongst an assembly of snakes.” I couldn’t...
View ArticleMusical Map Of The USA: Hawaii— Gabby Pahinui
There’s plenty of places in this country that encourage disenchantment, cities and states that practically compete to provide visitors with a sense of disillusionment and despair. Then there’s Hawaii....
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