Lily Scherlis

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I am a writer , artist , and researcher living in New York. My writing has appeared in Harper's, The Guardian, n+1, Parapraxis, The Baffler, The Drift, Cabinet, and Post45 Contemporaries , among other venues. I'm best known for writing about personal boundaries , the crisis of soft skills , and group dynamics . I'm currently working on a nonfiction book called People Skills , a deep dive into the world of self-help and pop psychology from attachment styles to emotional intelligence, to be published by Liveright (US) and Hutchinson Heinemann (UK). I am a PhD candidate in English and Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago, where I research personality, work, and the histo

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