What Was I Thinking?

"What Was I Thinking?" is a collection of first-person essays describing the moment in a relationship when, no matter how much you think it should work, or want it to work, or need it to work, you get that it's not going to work. Maybe you overheard your date say exactly the wrong thing about you (as in Amy Wruble's "Junk in the Trunk"). Maybe you realized that it's just impossible to be with a guy who orders a 'creche' instead of a carafe of wine, because 'Hey, Baby. I'm a writer. I play with words.' (as in Lynn Snowden Picket's "Norm Crosby Syndrome"). Whatever the details, these epiphanies make great stories. Included in this collection are more than fifty classic bad boyfriend stories, from writers including: Francesca Lia Block, Bonnie Bruckheimer, Nicole Hollander, Maira Kalman, Patricia Marx and Mimi Pond.