First, the bad news: According to new analysis, 53% of recent college grads are probably going to be either unemployed or underemployed in jobs that have nothing to do with what they studied in college. But, next, the sort of okay news: There's a great resource out there for drifting twentysomethings trying to muddle…
Lori Gottlieb wrote possibly the worst book about marriage of this young millennium. Now she's set her sights on parenting — and what she has to say is surprisingly non-terrible.
That seems to be the takeaway of today's strange take-down of bald guys in the NY Times. "Because of the blow to their self-esteem, some balding men simply settle when it comes to spouses." Wills and Kate, explained!
"Just don't fault my generation for a lack of trying. Fault Ms. Gilbert, Ms. Gottlieb and their ilk-those who project their own neuroses on to the rest of us." — Hannah Seligson, on Committed, Marry Him, and dating today [WSJ]
Julie Klausner's I Don't Care About Your Band is the anti-Marry Him — a celebration of self-love in the face of laughably bad dudes.
After we mentioned Lori Gottlieb's 2005 essay "Fat Like Him" in our review of Marry Him, the "fat guy" in question approached us to tell his side of the story — and his experience dating a now-famous advocate of "settling."
The following is the email interview we conducted with Lori Gottlieb's ex "Tim," condensed slightly and with our questions in bold.
On this morning's Today Show, Lori Gottlieb sugarcoated the bile that Marry Him, claiming that her pro-settling message is really "about finding true love."
Lori Gottlieb has been spreading her particular brand of Cautionary Matron doomsaying since 2008, and now she's plugging her upcoming book with an appropriately creepy interview in Marie Claire.
