"I've been therapized to death," says the novelist Kimberly Elkins, who has been seeing Zigman for several months. "But I don't need someone with a Ph.D. in psychology. I need deep empathy and understanding of a very particular set of problems."
"I sat down, lit a cigarette, read what he said, and thought I was going to vomit," Zigman says. "I knew, like, that was it. I wasn't a writer. What had I been thinking?" She shoved the manuscript into a drawer, started taking antidepressants, and didn't look at it again for two years.
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