Copyright, What If This Were Enough?

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Several pieces first appeared, in significantly different form, in the following publications:

Aeon: “Awaiting Renewal” • The Atlantic: “Haunted Womanhood” (10/16/16); “The Sound of Bravado” (7/29/16) • The Baffler: “Delusion at the Gastropub” (6/2016); “Fifty Shades of Late Capitalism” (4/2013). • The Cut: “It’s Never Been Harder to Be Young” (7/14/16); “Don’t Call It Toxic Masculinity. They’re Sociopathic Baby-Men” (10/5/17); “The Problem with Marie Kondo’s Second Book” (1/8/16); “What Romance Really Means After 10 Years of Marriage” (2/9/16) • Matter/Medium: “Burning Down the Mouse” (7/14/15) • The New York Times: “ ‘Billions’ Delivers a Dose of Charisma to Hedge Fund Titans” • The New York Times Magazine: “50 Shades of Mad Men” (6/22/12); “794 Ways in Which BuzzFeed Reminds Us of Impending Death” (7/3/14); “How to Be a Pioneer Woman Without Ever Leaving the Couch” (3/16/12); “Magically Resistant to the Ego-Bloating Properties of Hollywood Life” (7/22/11); “Some Girls Are Better Than Others” (4/12/12); “TV’s New Wave of Women: Smart, Strong, Borderline Insane” (3/12/13); “Why Are Americans So Fascinated with Extreme Fitness?” (10/14/14) • Salon: “How Hoarding Shows Cured My Hoarding” (4/10/10)

Cover photograph: Masterfile

Cover design by Emily Mahon

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Havrilesky, Heather, author.

Title: What if this were enough? : essays / by Heather Havrilesky.

Description: First edition. | New York : Doubleday, [2018]

Identifiers: LCCN 2018001398 | ISBN 9780385542883 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780385542890 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Havrilesky, Heather. | Happiness. | Conduct of life. | Women—Biography. | LCGFT: Essays.

Classification: LCC BF575.H27 H388 2018 | DDC 152.4/2—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018001398

Ebook ISBN 9780385542890

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