Barbara Ascher

Barbara Lazear Ascher is the author of four nonfiction books: Playing After Dark (Doubleday), The Habit of Loving (Random), Landscape Without Gravity (Viking Penguin), and most recently Dancing In The Dark: Romance, Yearning and The Search for The Sublime (Harper Collins). She has been a columnist for The New York Times and Elle Magazine; and a book reviewer and ?contributor to NPR, The Yale Review, The Washington Post and many other newspapers and journals. She lives in Springs, New York on Long Island’s East End.