What's the upside of staying single?

Kate Bullock, author of Spinster, will be here to talk about making a life of one zone.

I like to think of the word Spinster as a way to hold on to that in you, which is autonomous

and individual and self-reliant, no matter your actual relationship status.

Is large-scale public shaming back and worse than ever?

John Ronson will join us to talk about his new book, so you've been publicly shamed.

We're not thinking it through. We're not being judicious. We're not being democratic.

We just scream out at each dissent. And it's nice. It's nice people like us.

Alexander Altar will share her notes from the publishing world, and Greg Cole's has bestseller news.

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review. I'm Pamela Paul.

Kate Bullock is here to talk about her new book, Spinster, making a life of one zone. Hi, Kate.

Hi. So this book started off as a story for the Atlantic, a cover story, for like the few people

who didn't see that story, um, tells about what that was. So that story was called all the

single-lates, and it started as an assignment from the Atlantic. They asked me to look into how

the economy and men's worsening economic prospects were changing the future of dating marriage

in the family. So that's the article I had been assigned. And once I started researching it,

I came across the demographics around us having more single people than ever before, and realized

that that's what the story was about. That marriage rates weren't changing just because men were

having a worse time during the recession. So I ended up writing a lot about this new growing single

person demographic. So the idea that they started off with was, you know, do women not need men anymore,

now that they can make money on their own, and men's economic prospects are sort of disintegrating,

or at least getting worse, because of the recession, was that the sort of general?

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