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Sweary self-help: The brief history of a very extra genre

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What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck is going on in the world of self-help literature?

After decades of scoring mega-hits with cheesy titles (How to Win Friends and Influence People, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff), romantic titles (The Road Less Traveled, The Secret) and straight-up listicles (The Four Agreements, 7 Habits of Highly Successful People), publishers who cash in on solving problems have cottoned on to a new way of selling solutions: screaming "fuck" and "shit" at the tops of their literary lungs. Read more...

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