Jennifer Michael Hecht
Jennifer Michael Hecht is a historian, poet, and the author of Doubt, Stay, The Happiness Myth, and The End of the Soul. She earned her PhD in history from Columbia University and teaches in New York City.
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Unlock the paradoxes of life through poetic realism.
The secret may lie in an old idiom: “Sleep on it.”