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Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women, by Elizabeth Wurtzel (Doubleday, 432 pp., $32.95)

Elizabeth Wurtzel is a good girl who wants to go bad. In a way she already has; her first book, Prozac Nation, was an addiction memoir about her misadventures as a souped-up depressive, but hers was a passive kind of badness that involved letting trouble happen to her instead of actively causing it—i.e., nice badness.

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Florence King

Florence King was a contributing editor of National Review.

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Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women, by Elizabeth Wurtzel (Doubleday, 432 pp., $32.95)

Elizabeth Wurtzel is a good girl who wants to go bad. In a way she already has; her first book, Prozac Nation, was an addiction memoir about her misadventures as a souped-up depressive, but hers was a passive kind of badness that involved letting trouble happen to her instead of actively causing it—i.e., nice badness.