Zen and the Art of Self-Satisfaction: Noah Berlatsky looks back at Julia Cameron's million-selling, vaguely fascist self-help book The Artist's Way. A review of The Pursuit of Perfect: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life by Tal Ben-Shahar. Life coaches are the root of all evil: A review of Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich (and more and more and more and more). Not so fast: Sending and receiving at breakneck speed can make life queasy; a manifesto for slow communication. Profound people can see the miracle of each moment, good for them — what about us shallow people? A review of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age by Maggie Jackson. After Generation X, Generation Zzz: If Douglas

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