Also, I have been blogging — sometimes rather well — on addiction for Psychology Today. The column is called Dream On…. It needs clicks to survive, so I hope you will visit it and spread the word (as if you have nothing better to do). The words “addicted to” are used as loosely as “irony and ironically” were in the 90’s. We can’t seem to stop describing every compulsion, obsession, predilection and bad habit as a full-blown addiction. Leastways, I can’t. Addiction metaphors are, well, addictive. I intend to explore why.

Waterstone’s, London’s largest bookstore, plans to push it for Christmas, along with sugarplums, I hope, and a few well-deserved lumps of coal.

For news of Self-Loathing for Beginners,
Lynn Phillips’ book of helpful advice,
visit www.sl4b.com.
You can pre-order there, or by clicking
the image at left.
For Phillips’ Self-Loathing in Fashion awards, the DILFITs
(Do I Look Fat In This?)
see The New York Times T Beauty Magazine, April 13th.
Stay tuned for samples of Maggie Cutler’s columns from nerve.com: “The Secret Life of Kitty Lyons,” a series of political sex fantasies from the Clinton era.

There will eventually be an archive of other writings by Lynn Phillips, a.k.a. Maggie Cutler, from The National Lampoon, The Realist, Newsweek International, The Nation, and etc.,

Thumbnail links to Lynn Phillips’ artwork
and a highly selective blogroll.

Phillips/Cutler posts sporadically to the following sites:

• SL4B,
• The Shackle Report,
• Stop the Power Lines and
• Facebook.