Anneli Rufus, a prize-winning, critically acclaimed writer, has published more than 500 feature articles in dozens of magazines and newspapers worldwide. She is the editor of the East Bay Express monthly literary supplement and the author of Magnificent Corpses, The World Holiday Book, and the co-author, with her husband, Kristan Lawson, of five travel guidebooks. She lives in Berkeley, California.
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'Self-loathing is a dark land studded with booby-traps. Fumbling through its dark underbrush, we cannot see what our trouble actually is: that we are mistaken about ourselves. That we were told lies long ago which we, in love and loyalty and fear, believe... SEE MORE