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Five years in, she now does Craigslist Confessional full time. After her day job left her feeling disconnected and unfulfilled, she deferred her student loans, applied for a credit card, and gave herself one year-one year to just listen. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from George Washington University and worked to become a lawyer and lobbyist in Washington, DC. To make ends meet during those difficult first years, she helped her mother clean houses on the weekends. Helena Dea Bala immigrated to the United States as a child. Why We Can’t Sleep by Ada Calhoun ( My Review) | Buy from Amazon.All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister | Buy from Amazon.The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison | Buy from Amazon.The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash | Buy from Amazon.Stray by Stephanie Danler (My Review) | Buy from Amazon.The Mare by Mary Gaitskill | Buy from Amazon.The Girl on the Plane by Mary Gaitskill (Short Story).This Is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill | Buy from Amazon.Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed | Buy from Amazon.Craigslist Confessional by Helena Dea Bala | Buy from Amazon.Want by Lynn Steger Strong (Release Date: July 7, 2020) | Buy from Amazon.No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol | Buy from Amazon.

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The two subjects she’s kept in communication with since their initial conversations.

What it was like to listen to stories told by the person who was doing the harm (rather than the victim).

How she cared for her own mental health while being enmeshed in these oftentimes horrific stories.

The logistics of getting these personal conversations into book form.

How / why she decided to just listen to her Craigslist subjects without offering advice and what that was like.

Craigslist black book full#

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