Saturday, March 2, 2013

Sticks and Stones

Emily Bazelon, a senior editor at Slate, a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, and the Truman Capote Fellow at Yale Law School, has just published a new book on bullying that's receiving rave reviews. If you care about this critical issue and want to learn more, her book - Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power and Character of Empathy - would be a great place to start.

Some reviews ...

“She is nonjudgmental in a generous rather than simply neutral way, and she culls as much pathos from the circumstances of bullies as from those of their victims. She identifies not only the sadism of abusive children, but also their sadness. She is a compassionate champion for justice in the domain of childhood’s essential unfairness.” –Andrew Solomon, The New York Times


“In “Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy," journalist and editor Emily Bazelon brings a sure hand and investigative heft to her exploration of bullying, which, in the era of social media, includes both digital and old-fashioned physical cruelty.” –Los Angeles Times