By the following week, unable to keep down solid food since my name appeared in the headlines, I had lost seven pounds—along with the ability to think about anything other than myself. When Eliot Spitzer, the governor of New York, became ensnared in a prostitution scandal, I opened the New York Times to see a large pull-quote from Spitzer’s call girl that read: “I just don’t want to be thought of as a monster!” When I saw her defense, I tossed the newspaper aside. “Cass,” I insisted, “I have changed the way we talk. Now everyone is saying ‘monster.’ It is the new definition of the most
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