Heather Havrilesky

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The Regulator welcomes Durham native Heather Havrilesky for a reading and book signing in celebration of the paperback release of What If This Were Enough, her impassioned and inspiring collection about the expectations of modern life and the sweet imperfections of the everyday. ★A Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year.

Heather Havrilesky's writing has been called "whip-smart and profanely funny" (Entertainment Weekly) and "required reading for all humans" (Celeste Ng). From the allure of materialism to our misunderstandings of romance and success, Havrilesky deconstructs some of the most poisonous and misleading messages we ingest today, all the while suggesting new ways to navigate our increasingly bewildering world.

HEATHER HAVRILESKY is the author of "How to Be a Person in the World" and the memoir "Disaster Preparedness." She writes the "Ask Polly" column for New York magazine, and has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and NPR's All Things Considered, among others. She was Salon's TV critic for seven years. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and a loud assortment of dependents, most of them nondeductible. She was raised in Durham.

What If This Were Enough, 978-0525434962, Anchor/Random House

Media contact: Sarah Nisbet, snisbet@penguinrandomhouse.com