Thanks to social media, Covid isolation, down time, retirement and vanity sorry self publishing everyone is publishing their diary these days. As Tom Wolfe said years ago LET'S TALK ABOUT ME. Do we really want to hear about wacky Uncle Ted and their summer at camp? Their deepest thoughts and fears and what their prom dress? Please memoir/diary publishers STFU

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Thanks to social media, Covid isolation, down time, retirement and vanity sorry self publishing everyone is publishing their diary these days. As Tom Wolfe said years ago LET'S TALK ABOUT ME.

Do we really want to hear about wacky Uncle Ted and their summer at camp? Their deepest thoughts and fears and what their prom dress looked like? Please memoir/diary publishers STFU

(Article changed on Mar 10, 2026 at 3:27 PM EDT)

Authors Bio:

Martha Rosenberg is an award-winning investigative public health reporter who covers the food, drug and gun industries. Her first book, Born With A Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health, is distributed by Random House. Rosenberg has appeared on CSPAN and NPR and lectured at medical schools and at the Mid-Manhattan Public Library.