Cynthia Heimel

In this hysterical, sharp, and perfectly on-target collection of essays, Cynthia Heimel once again unleashes herself on her favorite subjects. From “The New Coldness” (beautiful people eating frozen radicchio mousse while starving children claw at the window) to “PMS and Outfits” (self-explanatory), each piece delivers a bracing antidote to modern culture, a word Heimel insists is far too generous for the world we inhabit.

In Heimel Women, she writes with brutal honesty about love, desire, and disillusionment:

“I know what kind of man I must look for. A guy who will be my pal, who approves of me and supports me, and who is not afraid of his feelings. I know this is right, because I feel the same aversion to the wrong kind of man that I feel about eating bean sprouts.”

On men, she diagnoses what she calls “the boy disease”:

“The boy disease is when everything is just great and you’re having a wonderful time, and then he suddenly becomes very weird and disappears. It’s epidemic nowadays.”

On relationships between men and women, Heimel cuts even deeper, skewering the exhausting contortions women perform for the wrong partner, and the futility of charm, perfume, and costume when love is misaligned.

Wickedly funny, painfully accurate, and unapologetically incisive, this collection captures Heimel at her most fearless and resonant.

January 1, 1991 by Atlantic Monthly Press

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