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For news of Self-Loathing for Beginners, Lynn Phillips’ book of helpful advice, visit www.sl4b.com. You can pre-order there, or by clicking the image at left. For Phillips’ Self-Loathing in Fashion...
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Going Brit
Aurum Press, Ltd. is bringing out an English edition of Self-Loathing for Beginners, re-entitled I Can Make You Loathe Yourself : The Infallible Step-by Step Programme for Lowering Your Self-esteem....
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A Lynn Phillips Update
You can find my latest T Magazine piece on the Self-Loathing-for-Beginners Site, along with updates on the Brit edition (see next post). Also, I have been blogging — sometimes rather well — on...
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more update
Lynn Phillips is currently blogging on addiction (from neuroscience to metaphors) at Psychology Today. Here’s a piece on the fabulous Carson brothers I did for T Mag blog…I called it “Here’s Looking At...
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NY Times Discovers Self-Help Addiction
Alina Tugend, in her November 4th column, Pursuing Self-Improvement, at the Risk of Self-Acceptance, has finally noticed that America’s self-improvement addiction has a downside. She was aided in part...
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Top Ten Secret Commandments for Self-Loathers
These commandments are so secret, most self-loathers don’t even know when they’re following them. 1. Thou shalt not compromise thy principles, ever. 2. Thou shalt be best at everything, else thou...
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A Dorothy Parker Quote for Fall
“There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life.” — Dorothy Parker, when her host told her that guests in another room were “ducking for apples.” Photo by George Platt Lynes 1943 When I...
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Bad Sex Science
gendered colorsI can’t stand it when people gender the spectrum, though I am mortified by exactly how much I care. For example, read this article from Science Magazine’s blog along with me and see how...
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Boviscopophobia, the David Foster Wallace Disorder
Go On: Look Like a Cow!In A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace peered down on his fellow passengers as they debarked from the luxury cruise ship M.V. Zenith, and recoiled at...
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Focus v. Awareness
stare at red dot fixedly and blue circle fades Fixed focus and general awareness don’t play well together. Concentrating on any one thing can cause “attentional blindness,” the inability to notice...
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The DILFIT Fashion Disaster Award Alert…
Back in the spring of 2008, I created the DILFIT Awards for Self-Loathing in Fashion. My list of winners ran in The New York Times’ T Magazine. (“DILFIT,” as you have no doubt guessed, is the acronym...
View ArticleAnnouncement: This Site Is In Transition
For the next couple of months I’ll be mucking about with this site, compiling material from other sites of mine into it and generally creating mindless chaos where vaguely mindful chaos once reigned....
View ArticleFrom Heresies Magazine 1989
A TO DO OR NOT TO-DO By Lynn Phillips Here in America, you can be anything you want. All you need is a positive attitude and a dash of moxie. But I want to be so many things; I’m having trouble...
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Titled “heaven Can Wait,” From The Downtown Express, column, “The Big Idea by Lynn Phillips” November 7th, 1990 What’s striking about the Soho loft Spalding Gray shares with his sometime director and...
View ArticleFrom “The Secret Life of Kitty Lyons, by Maggie Cutler”
Between 1999 and 2000 I published some 40 columns on the hipster sex site, nerve.com, and in their print publication, Nerve. In the French tradition the columns fused political satire and porn. Their...
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