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Daphne Merkin is a novelist, memoirist, and literary critic who writes for many publications, including the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic, the New York Review of Books, and Airmail. She is the author of This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression, and two collections of essays, Dreaming of Hitler and The Fame Lunches. Her first novel, Enchantment, has been reissued with an intro-duction by Vivian Gornick and her most most recent book is the novel 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love. She has taught writing at Marymount Manhattan College, Hunter College, the Ninety- Second Street Y, and the MFA program at Columbia University.