Quotes
“Sharply argued, knottily intelligent, darkly funny…showing how a specialized clinical term metastasized into a sweeping description of our entire culture.” New York Times
“Is excessive self-love a scourge of the twenty-first century? Dombek, a wonderfully nuanced essayist, takes on our collective egotism in this piercing and surprisingly funny book.” O, The Oprah Magazine
“Dombek writes breezily and well about the history of the idea of narcissism, leaning heavily on Elizabeth Lunbeck’s excellent The Americanization of Narcissism." Washington Post
“Dombek dignifies the genre. Her essays are personal in the way of Montaigne or Virginia Woolf: bold, humane, and more imaginative than navel-gazing.” New York Times Book Review
“[Dombek is] graceful on the page, and often more empathic, especially toward the suffering multitudes who’ve sustained lasting injury (they proclaim) at the hands of narcissistic bosses, bad boyfriends, selfish parents.” Bookforum
“Essayist Dombek offers plenty of examples of what has become a buzzword for the self-absorbed millennial…A savvy, sharp study.” Kirkus Reviews
“A tour de force and a masterpiece of comic intellect.” Mark Greif, author of The Age of the Crisis of Man