Dear Ms. Kipnis,
I have been reading and greatly enjoying your book Against Love. I was especially reveling in the discreet wickedness of agreeing with the delightfully acerbic proclamations on the dullness of marriage while sharing a subway seat with my own blissfully unaware husband. What stopped me short this afternoon, near the end of the [...]

Got off the phone and practically ran to the internet cafe to write about it.
She was calm, with a distinct Midwestern accent.
I told her about the problem with my family (ie they are all on the verge of trying some diet pill supplement thingy ordered from TV) and asked her how one goes about [...]