
Non-Fiction: Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement: A Year Inside the Optimization Movement by Carl Cederström and André Spicer
(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a freelance writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay View, In These Times, CounterPunch, and Noir City. Terrall last wrote for January Magazine about Alfred W. McCoy’s In the Shadows of the American Century.) If you are looking for a book for someone with a perverse sense of humor about contemporary narcissism, it would be […]