Susan Shapiro

Susan Shapiro, a Manhattan journalism professor, has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The Nation and Salon. She's the author of the memoirs "Lighting Up," "Five Men Who Broke My Heart" and "Only As Good as Your Word," the comic novels "Speed Shrinking" and "Overexposed" and the coauthor of the upcoming self-help book "Unhooked: How to Quit Anything."

She can be reached at www.susanshapiro.net