ELIZABETH WURTZEL

No quites la mesa en una cena si los hombres no se levantan a ayudar. Ten tu propio dinero. No intentes ser amiga de tus ex. La única forma de olvidarse de una persona es acostarse con otra. Si es am

Elizabeth Wurtzel published her memoir of depression, Prozac Nation, to astonishing literary acclaim. A cultural phenomenon by age twenty-six, she had fame, money, respecteverything she had always wanted except that one, true thing: happiness.For all of her professional success, Wurtzel felt like a failure. She had lost friends and lovers, every magazine job shed held, and way too much weight. She couldnt write, and her second book was past due. But when her doctor prescribed Ritalin to help her focus-and boost the effects of her antidepressantsWurtzel was spared. The Ritalin worked. And worked. The pills became her sugar...the sweetness in the days that have none. Soon she began grinding up the Ritalin and snorting it. Then came the cocaine, then more Ritalin, then more cocaine. Then I need more. I always need more. For all of my life I have needed more...More, Now, Again is the brutally honest, often painful account of Wurtzels descent into drug addiction. It is also a survival story: How Wurtzel managed to break free of her relationship with Ritalin and learned to love life, and herself, is at the heart of this ultimately uplifting memoir that no reader will soon forget.

Elizabeth Wurtzels New York Times best-selling memoir, with a new afterword"Sparkling, luminescent prose . . . A powerful portrait of one girls journey through the purgatory of depression and back." New York Times"A book that became a cultural touchstone." New YorkerElizabeth Wurtzel writes with her finger on the faint pulse of an overdiagnosed generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues. Her famous coming-of-age memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nation is a witty and sharp account of the psychopharmacology of an era, a landmark work of mental health literature for readers of Girl, Interrupted and Sylvia Plaths The Bell Jar.Raw, funny, and relentlessly honest, Wurtzels account defined depression for a generation.Unflinching Portrait of Depression: Goes beyond diagnosis to explore the black waves, the blankness, and the sheer exhaustion of living with clinical depression. Life on Prozac: A sharp, witty look at a life managed by Prozac, Lithium, and Xanax, and the search for a cure in a bottle. A Gen X Cultural Touchstone: Set against a backdrop of Kurt Cobain and pierced tongues, this is the book that gave a voice to the overdiagnosed, alienated, and brilliantly alive generation of the 90s. Witty, Literary Prose: For readers of Sylvia Plaths The Bell Jar and Girl, Interrupted, this is a fiercely intelligent and darkly funny memoir that sparkles with luminescent prose.

Though she might not always follow her own advice, Elizabeth Wurtzel knows certain things to be true: Doing copious amounts of drugs leads nowhere you want to be; trying to be friends with your ex is always a bad idea; if you cant afford to hire a mover, you cant afford to move; and always doing the best you can is always good enough.Here are Wurtzels succinct and clever rules for living your best life. Fulfillment is within everyones reach. Grasping it takes enjoying your mistakes, being strong, and having opinions. Todays woman should: Be Gorgeous. Make the absolute most of what youve got. Believe that you are gorgeous, and you will be. Its the only trick that really works. Embrace Fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others. Use All Available Resources. Let the M.D.s and the Ph.D.s help you solve your problems so that you dont become everyone elses problem. Never Clear the Table at a Dinner Party Unless the Men Get Up to Help First. Cleanup should not be gendered. Change the world, one dinner table at a time. Hold a sit-in.One of the fiercest, funniest, and best-known essayists of her generation, Elizabeth Wurtzel infuses this modest gem of a rule book with a sharp wit and a real candor.

Miss Wurtzel is back, and this time shes armed with advice for the modern woman. Shes found the secret of life, and its within everyones reach. Its about enjoying your mistakes. Its about being strong. Its about eating dessert. Its about having opinions. Its about adoring feminism. Its about embracing fanaticism. Its also about saying your prayers, not overpacking, and making your boyfriend do the dishes.. Some of her words of wisdom:- Think Productively: Its not that you have to see it to believe it; on the contrary, you have to believe it to see it.- Be Gorgeous: I myself believe that I am about ten times prettier than I actually am. By dint of sheer will power, I have managed to convince many people of this.- Enjoy Your Single Years: Do not think that the whole point of being single is being married; men dont think this way, and neither should you.In Radical Sanity, these lessons, and many more, are delivered with the sharp wit and candor weve come to expect -- and love -- from Elizabeth Wurtzel.

From the author of the bestselling Prozac Nation comes one of the most entertaining feminist manifestos ever written. In five brilliant extended essays, she links the lives of women as demanding and disparate as Amy Fisher, Hillary Clinton, Margaux Hemingway, and Nicole Brown Simpson. Wurtzel gives voice to those women whose lives have been misunderstood, who have been dismissed for their beauty, their madness, their youth.Bitch is a brilliant tract on the history of manipulative female behavior. By looking at women who derive their power from their sexuality, Wurtzel offers a trenchant cultural critique of contemporary gender relations. Beginning with Delilah, the first woman to supposedly bring a great man down (latter-day Delilahs include Yoko Ono, Pam Smart, Bess Myerson), Wurtzel finds many biblical counterparts to the men and women in todays headlines.She finds in the story of Amy Fisher the tragic plight of all Lolitas, our thirst for their brief and intense flame. She connects Hemingways tragic suicide to those of Sylvia Plath, Edie Sedgwick, and Marilyn Monroe, women whose beauty was an end, ultimately, in itself. Wurtzel, writing about the wife/mistress dichotomy, explains how some women are anointed as wife material, while others are relegated to the role of mistress. She takes to task the double standard imposed on women, the cultural insistence on goodness and societys complete obsession with badness: whats a girl to do? Lets face it, if women were any real threat to male power, "Gennifer Flowers would be sitting behind the desk of the Oval Office," writes Wurtzel, "and Bill Clinton would be a lounge singer in the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock."Bitch tells a tale both celebratory and cautionary as Wurtzel catalogs some of the most infamous women in history, defending their outsize desires, describing their exquisite loneliness, championing their take-no-prisoners approach to life and to love. Whether writing about Courtney Love, Sally Hemings, Bathsheba, Kimba Wood, Sharon Stone, Princess Di--or waxing eloquent on the hideous success of The Rules, the evil that is The Bridges of Madison County, the twisted logic of Youll Never Make Love in This Town Again--Wurtzel is back with a bitchography that cuts to the core. In prose both blistering and brilliant, Bitch is a treatise on the nature of desperate sexual manipulation and a triumph of pussy power.