How to Unleash Your Inner Bonnie
Bonnie Fuller's advice tome, (deep breath) The Joys of Much Too Much: Go for the Big Life — The Great Career, The Perfect Guy, and Everything Else You've Ever Wanted (Even If You're Afraid You Don't Have What It Takes), is headed to a bookstore near you this spring, and in today's WWD Jeff Bercovici takes a first look.
The book, apparently, is a guide for living life like Bonnie herself. (Why anyone would want to is a separate question.) The big Berc writes:
With chapter titles such as "The Good Side of Repression" and "Don't Inner-Fixate," the book is a m lange of common sense ("Check for spinach in the teeth before leaving [a] restaurant"), pragmatic antifeminism ("Don't talk much about pregnancy in the office, period") and Type-A rationalization ("As far as I'm concerned, hobbies are overrated"). Its central thesis: Women settle for mediocre lives in a misguided quest for "balance." The key to happiness is feeling overwhelmed.
Some favorites from the tidbits WWD provides:
On Star's journalistic standards: "We have a high bar to get over before we can print a story. We have to make sure it's true." (The occasional celebrity "bump" notwithstanding, presumably.)
On her reputation: "I don't consider myself rude, but I am rather straightforward.... Sometimes I just don't have time, for instance, to ask my staff how their weekend was. Sometimes people perceive me to be cold or uncaring because I don't indulge in chitchat."
Bonnie on magazines such as Real Simple: "Simplifying down to the most precious objects and actions will result in sterility, which is the road to spiritual ruin and mental rigor mortis."
Whereas reading Star, of course, will keep you spiritually uplifted and mentally agile.
Once we have a copy of our own — and we will soon enough — we'll provide some more highlights.
