Shhh! East Sider Is Expert on Noise Pollution
Dr. Arline Bronzaft has the unusual ability to interest readers of Playboy and scientific journals alike. The East Side resident’s work on noise abatement has earned her a reputation as one of the Western world’s foremost authorities on the topic, and she asserts that it’s one of the most important topics that our government isn’t addressing properly. She has served under the past four mayors as chair of the noise committee in the city’s Council on the Environment, and when anyone has a serious noise concern, they call Bronzaft to get things done.
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The Skinny on Fat Chick
Peer into any chick-lit lover’s bookshelf and you might spot the obligatory Bridget Jones’ Diary, The Devil Wears Prada and the terrifyingly titled Skinny Bitch. Page after soppy page details the travails of heroines who stumble and bumble through their diets, makeovers and professional lives—only to emerge skinny, chic, successful and finally with that job at The New Yorker. Read more
August Shrink Book Round-Up
“I feel like I just got a hundred grand worth of your therapy by osmosis,” said a friend who read my debut novel, Speed Shrinking. With therapists away in August, abandoned patients are freaking out. Yet in this lousy economy, there are cheaper ways to soothe your turbulent psyche than handing over your hard-won cash to an overpriced Jungian partying in Southampton. Here this longtime shrinkoholic and former book critic lists the best fiction filled with shrink wit and wisdom you can suck in for just the price of a paperback: Read more
