Penelope Trunk’s list

Penelope Trunk’s first book is Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success. Her syndicated career column appears in The Boston Globe and hundreds of other publications worldwide.

She contributed "The List" to The Week magazine this week.

One title on Trunk's list:

The Sensuous Woman by “J”

I read this book 400 times in seventh grade trying to understand how the world works. It took me a while to realize that the anonymous author was saying that if you can just be yourself, you’ll be good in bed. I decided that probably this was true of life out of bed as well, and I started trying it.

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--Marshal Zeringue