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Exploiting The Joy of Trash: The Toxic Anti-Feminism of Self-Help Guru Marabel Morgan

The fascinatingly, poignantly terrible anti-feminist Marabel Morgan wrote the best-selling non-fiction book of 1974 in The Total Woman (with some ten million copies in print) and appeared on the cover of both Time and Mrs. Why has she been forgotten and why do her ideas suddenly feel so horrifyingly contemporary?

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The Weird Accordion to Al: Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Edition Book Excerpt: The Compleat Al

In honor of the Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Edition of The Weird Accordion to Al’s publication day we’re running an excerpt from the book on Al’s 1985 longform video The Compleat Al.

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