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Pamela Paul

Biography

Pamela Paul

Pamela Paul is the editor of The New York Times Book Review and the author of BY THE BOOK; PARENTING, INC..; PORNIFIED; and THE STARTER MARRIAGE AND THE FUTURE OF MATRIMONY. Prior to joining the Times, she was a contributor toTime magazine and The Economist, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post and Vogue. She and her family live in New York.

Pamela Paul

Books by Pamela Paul

My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
by Pamela Paul - Essays, Memoir, Nonfiction

Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for 28 years --- carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London to Thailand, from job to job, safely packed away and then carefully removed from apartment to house to its current perch on a shelf over her desk --- reliable if frayed, anonymous-looking yet deeply personal. This book has a name: Bob. Bob is Paul’s Book of Books, a journal that records every book she’s ever read, a journey in reading that reflects her inner life --- her fantasies and hopes, her mistakes and missteps, her dreams and her ideas, both half-baked and wholehearted. Her life, in turn, influences the books she chooses, whether for solace or escape, information or sheer entertainment.