Robin Marantz Henig's Blog, page 10
November 18, 2012
Hating on the Hipsters
A Princeton prof says every generation has a defense mechanism. But every generation has thousands of them, along with thousands of world views, habits, sensibilities, strenghts, weaknesses, fears, and dreams.
November 14, 2012
The Page 99 Test
A book blogger asked me to apply The Page 99 Test to my own book. It tests the hypothesis expressed by the novelist Ford Madox Ford: "Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you."
November 13, 2012
Student Loans and the Parents' Burden
Parents took out loans for their kids' education, and are finding themselves as trapped and burdened by the payoff as their children are.
November 11, 2012
Regrets and Early-Life Trade-Offs
A misleading illustration accompanies an op-ed in today's New York Times called "Death: A Nice Opportunity for Regret." It shows a tombstone with the epitaph "I Wish I Hadn't." It's misleading because research shows that the correct epitaph, for most of us, would be "I Wish I Had."
November 8, 2012
The Dark Side of Parental Love
The old saw that you're only as happy as your unhappiest child—even if the child is an adult—has some scientific underpinning. But there was one finding that was not only surprising but a bit disconcerting. The parents who thought their kids were better-adjusted than they themselves had been in their twenties weren’t all that pleased.
