Lighting Up
How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex
In the critically acclaimed Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Manhattan journalist Susan Shapiro revisited five self-destructive romances. In her hilarious, illuminating new memoir, Lighting Up, she rejects five self-destructive substances. This difficult quest for clean living starts with Shapiro’s shocking revelation that, at forty, her lengthiest, most emotionally satisfying relationship has been with cigarettes.
A two-pack-a-day smoker since the age of thirteen, Susan Shapiro quickly discovers that it’s impossible to be a writer, a nonsmoker, sane, and slender in the same year. The last time she tried to quit, she gained twenty-three pounds, couldn’t concentrate on work, and wanted to kill herself and her husband, Aaron, a TV comedy writer who hates her penchant…
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December 27, 2005
Susan Shapiro, an award-winning writing professor, freelances for The New York Times, New York magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Elle, The New Yorker and Oprah magazines online. She’s the bestselling author or co-author of 14 books her family hates, including Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Lighting Up, Unhooked, The Bosnia List, and the inspiring writing guide The Byline Bible. She and her husband, a scriptwriter, live in Greenwich Village, where she teaches her popular “instant gratification takes too long” classes at The New School, NYU, Columbia University and in private online workshops and seminars.
The Byline Bible
Susan Shapiro
The Bosnia List
Kenan Trebincevic and Susan Shapiro
Secrets of a Fix-up Fanatic
Susan Shapiro
Lighting Up
Susan Shapiro
Five Men Who Broke My Heart
Susan Shapiro
Just Once, No More
Charles Foran
On Consolation
Michael Ignatieff
All We Want
Michael Harris
Why We Remember
Charan Ranganath
The Certainty Illusion
Timothy Caulfield
How to Calm Your Mind
Chris Bailey
The Art of Danish Living
Meik Wiking
Every Family Has a Story
Julia Samuel
Meditations for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman
Into the Uncut Grass
Trevor Noah
Closer Together
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau
Releasing the Mother Load
Erica Djossa
The Only Constant
Najwa Zebian
Supercommunicators
Charles Duhigg
The Book of Boundaries
Melissa Urban
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
Knife
Salman Rushdie
Jennie's Boy
Wayne Johnston
Burning Questions
Margaret Atwood
Paper Trails
Roy MacGregor
Mistakes to Run With
Yasuko Thanh
A Private Spy
John le Carré; edited by Tim Cornwell
The Bookseller of Florence
Ross King
Half-Bads in White Regalia
Cody Caetano
In a Time of Distance
Alexander McCall Smith
Through the Garden
Lorna Crozier
Letters of Note: New York City
Shaun Usher
Letters of Note: Sex
Shaun Usher
Burning Boy
Paul Auster