Hear, hear! I just pre-ordered and you should too! James is a brilliant writer and I can't wait to read this.

Bill Whitworth, who was my boss for a scant three or so years, somehow accounts for about 20% of my writerly superego. A giant. RIP to one of the greats. nytimes.com/2024/03/09/bus…

My friend James Marcus has written a book about Emerson and it's superb—brilliant, elegant, funny, and deep. I love it. You should buy several copies. press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Psychotherapists! Humans! Samir Chopra's book Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide is out today, and it's fantastic. Samir is a philosophical counselor, and his book helped me to deepen & reconceptualize a lot of what I see in my practice. Highly recommended. press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Emily has a fantastic and fascinating new essay on the "female happiness paradox." (Personal takeaway: I gotta start doing more around the house.)

If you're in the Boston area, you've got to go!

Emily on Colm Toibin's latest!

cc Maria Bamford

On his Substack "Psychiatry at the Margins," the psychiatrist Awais Aftab wrote a sensitive and welcome response to my response to his NYT op-ed: psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-medicati…

Michael Feinberg, threatened with demotion over his friendship with a former official on the FBI director’s “enemies list,” details FBI leadership’s efforts to oust him from the Bureau, and his decision to ultimately resign. lawfaremedia.org/article/goodby…

There's a new special out from eddie pepitone, one of our greatest living stand-up comedians. Get it! Eddie is the best. There's no one like him. veeps.com/eddiepepitone/…

For The New Yorker, I wrote about my daughter's transition at age 26--the initial surprise, and the long, edifying period of adjustment, which has transformed us both (and which isn't over yet). newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

This podcast ep with Jonathan Shedler is more than two years old and the audio stinks but all (or a lot of) psychotherapists should listen to it. makingtherapybetter.com/the-problem-wi…

This is a warmly touching, brilliant example of Stephen Koch's prose; & a glimpse into a most unusual friendship.

“That I loved my daughter was never in doubt. My problem was that I didn’t much like being a father,” Daniel Smith writes. “From a life of freedom and agency I had entered a life of white-noise machines, parenting manuals, and fatigue.” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/…

The Atlantic has published an excerpt from my forthcoming (3/3) book HARD FEELINGS. It's about boredom, and meaning, and being a parent. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/…

Guys, Daniel Smith wrote another wise, sharp, and heartfelt book. It’s called HARD FEELINGS and it’s personal—about what to do with and how to think about dark emotions (his, mine, yours)—and it’s out now.

Tomorrow (Tue) night, if you live on Long Island.