emotional support trauma plot

In The Coddling of the American Mind, Lukianoff and Haidt chart a dramatic decrease in young people’s resilience and ability to cope with difficult ideas and hurt feelings. The authors do not belittle these struggles, but emphasize that they are a painful consequence of the acceptance of three “Great Untruths.” These are the belief that people are

Both the novel and the Internet are purveyors of many kinds of fiction. If one takes fiction seriously, and I do, what one reads is important. We are not only what we eat; we are what we read. Reading becomes part of memory and imagination.

the ripping, destructive agony of an illness doesn’t have inherent value.

Fear, vanity and selfishness make people do terrible things to each other. For thousands of years these have been the engines of stories. But there was no discernible arc to this particular one; Susie would have to be a good writer to make it fill two hundred pages. ‘Is this something you would really like to write about?’ I asked. ‘It depends on w