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"" ""A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"" ""This book found me at just the right time. . . . [The Good-Enough Life] offers a bit of an antidote or a countercultural approach to designing communities and systems. . . [It’s a] philosophical, semi-political, pro-social, contemplative approach to designing a new way forward.""---Alyson Stoner, New York Magazine ""[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 *"