I’m also loving Mallory from the Toast as the new Dear Prudence. I started out really enjoying Emily Yoffe’s Prudence, I checked Slate every Thursday to see the latest column. But over time (Letter writer: I’m wondering how best to include my complicatedly blended family in a beautiful wedding ceremony– Prudence: I DIDN’T HAVE A STUPID, EXPENSIVE WEDDING AND MY MARRIAGE IS FINE!) I started to pick up (Letter writer: My mother thinks my fiance and I should– Prudence: I DIDN’T HAVE A STUPID, EXPENSIVE WEDDING AND MY MARRIAGE IS FINE!) on a very subtle (Letter writer: I’m getting married next month and I wonder if– Prudence: I DIDN’T HAVE A STUPID, EXPENSIVE WEDDING AND MY MARRIAGE IS FINE!) pattern, and I’m really glad to see the new Prudence.
How To Be A Person In The World is a collection of advice columns and answers. Some were familiar to me, but not all of them. A lot of the questions on Ask Polly are about finding artistic and career satisfaction, or about balancing creative drive with the responsibilities of marriage, family, earning a living, and all the other aspects of adult life. These are not the sort of problems that are solved with a generic suggestion to talk to the offending spouse/coworker/sibling. Instead, Polly reminds us that trying and failing at life, love, work, and art is pretty much universal.
This book may not really be able to tell readers how to be a person in the world, but the stories and advice keep reminding us that we, struggling to be people in world, are not alone.
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