Barbara AscherBarbara 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, Yearing 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. Read More Read Less