Title: Getting "Personal"
Review: Thomas Beller compiles a strikingly honest, painfully earnest collection of essay with "Personals: Dreams and Nightmares from the Lives of Twenty Young Writers." In a time when overly indulgent fits of angst are all the rage, Beller and his writers present a tempered, wise view of their youths. Yes, there is regret, there are growing pains, there are the travails of young love, but somehow they seem different in this light. These writers know themselves and they know the time in which they live. This allows them to write with such an incisive nature and clear-eyed depth of character, that one cannot help but be compelled by their tales. Some are humorous, some are painfully morose, but all are little life lessons worth paying attention to.
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