Avram Alpert is a writer and teacher. He has worked at Princeton and Rutgers Universities, and is currently a research fellow at the New Institute in Hamburg. His books include A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us about Living Well without Perfection. His work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Aeon.
A Financial Times FT Critics' Book of the Year [Alpert's] vision of a good-enough world is energizing. ---Lily Meyer, The Atlantic The Good-Enough Life leaves no meritocracy standing. . . . [A] jolt of reorientation. ---Emily Ogden, Los Angeles Review of Books [W]e should bestow social recognition . . . .on common moral qualities, not on uncommon talent. It should be good enough just to be good enough . . . . [This is] Alpert's case, and he makes it well. ---Andrew Stark, Times Literary Supplement Read this book, breathe a sigh of relief, and then go take a nap. ---Rana Foroohar, Financial Times This is an amazing and deeply inspiring book. Alpert employs a prose style that is wrought like fine gold jewelry. There is scarcely a page from which this reader does not wish to quote and share Alpert's wisdom with others. * Choice *