Susannah B. Mintz

After breaking up with 'The Contractor', Susannah Mintz reactivates her Match.com profile and embarks with a sigh on the challenging path of online dating. This mini-memoir follows her through the ethical and emotional bear-pit that follows. There are men she finds interesting but unattractive; men to whom she feels an electric physical attraction, but who lack purpose; and of course, because this is a 'comedy' (in the Dantesque sense of a happy ending), there's 'the one'. Mintz's journey is one of inner growth as well as outer progress, although her attitude to dating (as a middle-aged American college professor) wasn't always one I found immediately relatable: imagine auditioning dates by sending them your essays to read! It's a tad meandering and there's a fair amount of navel-gazing, but Mintz is a clear-eyed and unsentimental companion.… (more)