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Merve Emre is an associate professor of English at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Bookforum, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Baffler, n+1, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she is senior humanities editor.

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	The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway (The Annotated Books) by Virginia Woolf, Merve Emre (Introduction & Notes) 3.77 avg rating — 365,838 ratings — published 1925 — 2378 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Room of One's Own: Introduction by Merve Emre (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) by Virginia Woolf, Merve Emre (introduction) 4.22 avg rating — 271,162 ratings — published 1929 — 2538 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe, Merve Emre (introduction) 3.46 avg rating — 28,553 ratings — published 2004 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Women by Susan Sontag, Merve Emre (Introduction), David Rieff (Editor) 3.63 avg rating — 5,067 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing 3.26 avg rating — 3,469 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man Who Cried I Am: A Novel by John A. Williams, Merve Emre (Introduction), John A. Williams 4.11 avg rating — 459 ratings — published 1967	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Am Alien to Life: Selected Stories by Djuna Barnes, Merve Emre (foreword) 3.80 avg rating — 147 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America 3.39 avg rating — 38 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Once & Future Feminist 3.60 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	LARB Digital Edition: Film and the Art of Adaptation: Issue #18 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Not only psychologists, but otherwise intelligent people, quickly become consummate jackasses when they are asked to develop a child’s character,”
― Merve Emre, The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing

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“An avid reader of management theorist Elton Mayo’s articles on human relations, which stressed the primacy of employee morale to job performance, she knew that the most effective way to increase worker productivity was not to peg workers as normal, antisocial, or manic-depressive. Rather, it was for management to make every worker feel as if he was needed somewhere, doing something, no matter how unglamorous the task; to increase the attention they paid to the psychic lives of their employees.”
― Merve Emre, The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing

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“Beyond all the pseudoscientific talk of “indicators” and “instruments” was a simple but subtle truth: the questionnaire reflected whatever version of yourself you wanted it to reflect, whether consciously or unconsciously. You could quickly become attuned to the pattern of the questions, their basic idiom of sociability, creativity, rationality, impulsivity. If you wanted to see yourself as odd and original or factual and direct, it required only a little bit of imagination to nudge the answers in the right direction.”
― Merve Emre, The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing

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