Articles 2010
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Live Longer and Prosper
Is "adaptive reuse" the secret to responding creatively to extended old age?
Big Questions Online, August 30, 2010
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Shanghai Shangri-la?
The lost glamour of World's Fairs
Big Questions Online, July 22, 2010
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Home Is Where the Heart Is
The Wall Street Journal, May 04, 2010
A longing for the perfect life in the perfect environment can make real-estate listings as evocative as novels. Review of Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House by Meghan Daum
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Indecision-Making
Review of The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar
The New York Times Book Review, April 17, 2010
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A Power to Persuade
The deeper meaning of glamour
The Weekly Standard, March 27, 2010
After C-SPAN reran a 1999 BookNotes interview about my first book, I received an email from a disappointed viewer. He was chagrined to hear that I was editing a website called DeepGlamour instead of writing “more serious nonfiction.” Glamour, he implied, is a trivial subject, unworthy of consideration by people who watch, much less appear on, C-SPAN.