Advice Columnist Meredith Goldstein Reveals She Doesn't Have It All Figured Out
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Advice columnist Meredith Goldstein is never at a loss when it comes to giving advice to her “Love Letters” readers. But as her new memoir reveals, that certainty is sometimes completely lacking in her personal life.
“Can’t Help Myself: Lessons & Confessions from a Modern Advice Columnist,” is a humorous and sometimes poignant look at how Goldstein handles her own breakups (sometimes crying beside her workplace vending machine), her dating-avoidance techniques, her fraught relationship with her father and, ultimately, the difficulties she has navigating her mother’s cancer treatments. The book is interspersed with letters she’s received from her own readers, which are woven into the narrative about her own life.
Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks with Goldstein (@MeredithGoldste) about the book, and the situations she confronts.
Book Excerpt: ‘Can’t Help Myself’
by Meredith Goldstein
Excerpted from CAN’T HELP MYSELF: Lessons and Confessions From a Modern Advice Columnist by Meredith Goldstein. Copyright © 2018 by Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC. Reprinted by permission of Grand Central Publishing, New York, NY. All rights reserved.
This segment aired on May 7, 2018. Audio will be available soon.
