When I was working on my book Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis, I read a raft of studies and novels and articles about various aspects of middle-aged woman-dom. Some made me furious; others made me laugh. My source materials went from Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s devastatingly great profile “The Big Business of Being Gwyneth … Continue reading 15 Great Books That Speak to the Lives of Middle-Aged Women