Hell Is Other Parents And Other Tales of Maternal Combustion

Thrust among perhaps the most over-involved, overprotective, competitive, and interfering parents in history, journalist Kogan has written a series of essays that evokes and reflects on the particular yet universal challenges she has faced while parenting in the new millennium.

Deborah Copaken Kogan worked as a photojournalist from 1988 to 1992, and her photographs appeared in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, L'Express, Liberation and Geo, among many other international newspapers and magazines. She spent the next six years in TV journalism, including a time as a producer for Dateline NBC. Her writings have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times and elsewhere. She is a Harvard alumna. She lives in New York City with her husband, Paul Kogan, and their three children.