In today's New York Times Sunday Book Review, the psychiatrist Peter D. Kramer reviews Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things (Houghton Mifflin), by Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee. His conclusion:
To those who need to understand hoarders, perhaps in their own family, "Stuff" offers perspective. For general readers, it is likely to provide useful stimulus for examining how we form and justify our own attachments to objects.
"Useful stimulus" — ho-hum. When our own Rob Walker
Published on April 25, 2010 07:20