title: Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion
author: Daniel Jones
description: DANIEL JONES edits the weekly Modern Love column in the Sunday Styles section of <i>The New York Times</i>. He is also the editor of <i>The Bastard on the Couch</i> and the author of <b>After Lucy</b>. He lives with his family in Massachusetts.
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  ## [About the Book](9780062877901_Contents.xhtml#r_idParaDest-34)
  
  
  ## [**Dear Readers**](9780062877901_PS.xhtml#ratb1)
  
  
  Dear Readers,
  
  
  When I titled this series Modern Love, I did so with a wink. One of the things
  I find beautiful and frustrating about contemporary novels is that they’re a
  snapshot of reality at the time they’re written. The world can and does change
  rapidly. Not much can actually stay “modern” indefinitely.
  
  
  Love, though? Love is always fresh and new and cutting-edge. In a hundred
  years, when people have progressed to swiping holograms instead of pictures,
  and the technology in these books belongs in museums, I hope one of my great-
  grandnieces pauses in her self-driving hovercraft to identify with the love in
  Modern Love.
  
  
  I wrote _First Comes Like_ during a globally difficult snapshot of time, one
  filled with loss and isolation and stress for me and everyone I know. I have
  always been an optimistic person, and I write optimistic books, but finding
  optimism d