Gustavo Turner

Author Moira Weigel came across lots of heinous advice while researching her new book.; Credit: Photo by Joni Sternbach

15 Pieces of Terrible Relationship Advice From Dating Self-Help Books

On Saturday, June 11, Culver City’s romance-novel hub the Ripped Bodice hosts a conversation with Moira Weigel, author of the brand new, fun-fact-filled Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26). Weigel’s wide-ranging survey begins in the 1890s, when the word “dating” (as in “filling the......