From "The Therapist, " a story from Nobody's Baby by Leo Litwak, copyright 2005, excerpted with permission by El Leon Literary Arts.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Nobody's Baby'

Some of her strengths: She had worked at a student-run ad agency in college that handled advertising for student radio stations, the yearbook and the literary arts magazine.

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In the realm of the literary arts, Mr. Magill has a field day, zeroing in on Rousseau as the source of our modern literary obsession with sincerity, which the author finds manifest in German and English Romanticism, American Transcendentalism, French Symbolism and other currents that come to look like a tidal wave in favor of finding and flaunting the unvarnished self.

WSJ: Book Review: Sincerity