Better Living Through LSD

When The New York Times Book Review didn't select her novel “Love and Treasure” as one of its 100 Notable Books of 2014, she unleashed a tweetstorm of hurt. (Family-friendly excerpt: “there are MANY books on that notable list with reviews that were NOWHERE near as good as mine.”) When she announced in a 2005 essay that she loved her husband, the novelist Michael Chabon, more than she loved her children, outraged mothers everywhere clucked and tut-tutted, and when she expressed surprise, the chorus came back — Well, what on earth did you expect?