Splitting Ourselves

The unintended consequences of projecting an image.

Writing and publishing a book is vulnerable. You’re asking the public (and critics) to appraise your talents, for one. And there are certain stories and experiences I write about in On Our Best Behavior that were previously…private, excruciatingly so. But interestingly, neither of those realities kept me up at night: I’m not afraid of criticism, or of t…