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Stephanie Golden

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http://www.goodreads.com/wwwgoodreadscomStephanie_Golden

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Brooklyn, NY, The United States

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female

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http://www.stephaniegolden.net

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Nonfiction, Health, Mind & Body

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Jungian dream analysis; Buddhist meditation

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January 2012

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Got the Girl Scouts' Writer badge (the only one that interested me) when I was 12: that signaled the future. I began writing fiction, but discovered that what really compelled me was literary nonfiction—especially once I developed a way to use a central image as a method of analysis.

An image constrains and focuses thoughts while still allowing great freedom in moving around within it: you can come at your material from many different directions without losing coherence, since the analysis acquires its form from the structure of the image.

I used this method for both my literary nonfiction books:

• For The Women Outside, a study of homeless and marginal women, it was the figure of the witch.

• For Slaying the Mermaid, about women and sel

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Where’s the OUTRAGE?

A city dweller—a true child of concrete—once spent the weekend with a friend in the suburbs. The friend’s cat snared a bird and as cats will do, deposited the corpse as a gift on the doorstep. The city visitor was indignant. “Aren’t you mad at Rudy for killing the pretty bird?” she demanded.

“Why should I be angry at a creature for acting according to its nature?” the friend responded.

Even at th...

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Books by Stephanie Golden

Average rating: 3.88 · 24 ratings · 5 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Slaying the Mermaid: Women and the Culture of Sacrifice 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Women Outside: Meanings and Myths of Homelessness 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Permanent Pain Cure: The Breakthrough Way to Heal Your Muscle and Joint Pain for Good by Ming Chew, Stephanie Golden (Goodreads Author) 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Body Rolling: An Experiential Approach to Complete Muscle Release by Yamuna Zake, Stephanie Golden (Goodreads Author) 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	The Ultimate Body Rolling Workout: The Revolutionary Way to Tone, Lengthen, and Realign Your Body by Yamuna Zake, Stephanie Golden (Goodreads Author) 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Under the Mask: A Guide to Feeling Secure and Comfortable During Anesthesia and Surgery by James E. Cottrell, Stephanie Golden (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Stephanie Golden wrote a new blog post: The 99¢ store: what’s a book worth these days? The 99¢ store: what’s a book worth these days? When I put my out-of-print book Slaying the Mermaid: Women and the Culture of Sacrifice on Kindle, I had to decide how much to charge. Amazon limit... read more »
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Stephanie Golden gave to: Belonging by Sallie Reynolds read in February, 2012	My rating:
Certain Southern writers have a special connection to the land and the natural world, and Reynolds is one of them. In Belonging, she recreates the world of the rural South of the past, entirely through details of landscape, buildings, people, and anim...more
Mar 10, 2012 09:46am · see review
Stephanie Golden gave to: Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons In Life, Love, And Language by Deborah Fallows	My rating:
Disappointing. It's about a topic that fascinates me--the relation between language, culture, and modes of thought--but the writing was flat and the concepts not followed in any depth. Sometimes she closed chapters with awkward anecdotes, evidently b...more
Jan 27, 2012 02:54pm · see review
Stephanie Golden gave to: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life by Twyla Tharp	My rating:
This book gave me a real respect for Tharp as an artist with a tremendously impressive range of reference. I was pleased to see that much of what she recommended I already did, and noted down some of her exercises to use in the future. These mostly i...more
Jan 07, 2012 03:43pm · see review
Stephanie Golden gave to: When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant	My rating:
This novel was intensely enjoyable but I thought it was relatively slight, yet it's stayed with me and I realized is was powerfully evocative. Synchronistically, a couple months after reading it I got a job editing a history of Israel that included t...more
Jan 07, 2012 02:30pm · see review
Stephanie Golden marked as to-read: Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield	My rating:
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