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Eilene B. Zimmerman

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Memoir, Nonfiction, Psychology

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Eilene Zimmerman has been a journalist for three decades, covering business, technology and social issues for a wide array of national magazines and newspapers. She was a columnist for The New York Times Sunday Business section for six years and since 2004 has been a regular contributor to the newspaper. In 2020, Zimmerman earned her masters degree in social work. She lives in San Diego, Calif.

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Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

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I recently went through a similar experience and needed to thank you for writing such a poignant, intelligent and heartfelt memoir. Reading your book has been a cathartic and insightful experience.

My husband is a partner at [Am Law 100 firm] and when your NYT article came out in 2017, the firm’s manager partner emailed it to every single partner (worldwide) with a message that read “If you are str Read more of this blog post »

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“exasperated.”
― Eilene B. Zimmerman, Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

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“If people in white collar professional jobs, who are among our society's most well educated, driven, and high achieving citizens are becoming addicts, what does that say about us as a society?

I ask myself, what is the point of being here at all, of striving to achieve success, and careers, and personal lives, if so many want to escape once they get there?”
― Eilene B. Zimmerman, Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

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“Lots of things conspire to create or cut down someone’s sense of their own worth. In my life it wasn’t one big thing but many, many small ones, a collection of insults and humiliations that piled up over time until they were bigger than I was. And the piling up started early.”
― Eilene B. Zimmerman, Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

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