Jennifer Michael Hecht

Author @Farrar, Straus And Giroux

My new book, out in two months, is The Wonder Paradox: On the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives, with FSG, which you can preorder now. It\'s about using poetry to help us live enchanted lives, outside the supernatural. I have three books of poetry out, most recently Who Said with Copper Canyon. I also wrote a big book about atheism and skepticism called Doubt: A History, and gave many talks on the subject, many of which are available online. Doubt and the next book The Happiness Myth are with Harper Collins. The Happiness Myth looks at how ideas of the good life change over time. Then Yale University Press came out with my Stay: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It. Interviews where I sum that up are available as well.(try the podcast On Being). My last two books, Stay and Who Said, came out in 2013. I\'ve been writing this new book for most of the time since and I love it a lot and hope you will.