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 DAN
SAFERSTEIN, Ph.D., is the author of
SEX TIPS FOR THE LIVING, his first book. Saferstein is a psychologist
in private practice who consults with individuals, management, and
athletic teams. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Visit Dan's website
at www.dansaferstein.com.
SEX TIPS FOR THE LIVING: Meditations on the Meaning of Marriage
and Life is an inspiring, wise,
and sweetly humorous book in which Dan Saferstein shares his newly
acquired life lessons in the wake of his sister's death.
Dan Saferstein's Summer Reading List
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
by Ken Kesey
My wife wonders why I'd be interested in reading a book if I already
know the story beforehand, but that hasn't stopped me --- I'm on
page 127 --- from enjoying this very captivating novel. At first,
I had trouble with the fact that the villains (i.e. a female nurse
and the African-American men who work as orderlies) are so villanous,
and the hero is so heroic, but maybe that's how things were handled
forty years ago. I think when I finish the book I might even go
out and rent the movie.
CARRY ME ACROSS THE WATER
by Ethan Canin
I don't even know what this novel is about, but I'm going to read
it anyway, since I've liked everything that I've read of Ethan Canin's
so far, particularly his short stories. I'm also a big fan of his
agent, Maxine Groffsky, who once suggested to me that I give up writing
fiction and try the kind of memoirish books that I'm writing now.
Maxine is the aunt of my best boyhood friend.
ANGLE OF REPOSE
by Wallace Stegner
I read CROSSING TO SAFETY and
really loved it, loved it in the way you might enjoy
listening to a favorite grandparent talk about his
life. I never had a chance to meet either of my grandfathers
--- they both died before I was born --- and so I've
had to borrow people like Wallace Stegner, as well
as mentors like Herbert Barrows and Angus Wilson.
My agent's husband, Paul, is also a Wallace Stenger
fan, for what that's worth.
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER
by Jamaica Kincaid
I read three books by Jamaica Kincaid when my wife
and I took our first vacation without our children
in March of this year. (Our oldest child is nine years
old.) All of Jamaica Kincaid's books are like vacations
in a dreamy sort of way. Her writing can be so beautifully
poetic and so beautifully sad. I want to read the
stories that make up AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER again,
because while I was touched by them the first time
around, I can't remember what any of them are about.
BACK
WHEN WE WERE GROWN-UPS
by Anne
Tyler
I guess Anne Tyler and Jamaica Kincaid are my favorite women writers.
(Do women have their favorite men writers? Probably not.) Anne Tyler's
writing is not dreamy. It is very clear and solid. I've read about
three or four of her books and have liked them all, particularly THE
ACCIDENTAL TOURIST. When I was in graduate school, one of my classmates
used to call me the "Accidental Psychologist."
EXPECTING
ADAM
by Martha Beck
I'm hoping that I'll get to this book before the summer is through,
since my wife was extremely touched by it and has even gone as far
to say that I can't understand her unless I read it. I must admit
that she is a lot better at reading books that I like than I am at
reading books that she likes. From what I can gather, EXPECTING ADAM
tells the story of a woman's experience of being pregnant and giving
birth to a child with Downs Syndrome, but my wife insists it's about
a whole lot more than that.
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