Yael Goldstein Love (born 1978) is a novelist, editor and book critic. She is also co-founder and editorial director of the literary studio

Plympton Plympton is a suburb of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England. It is in origin an ancient stannary town. It was an important trading centre for locally mined tin, and a seaport before the River Plym silted up and trade moved down river to P ...

Biography

Goldstein Love's first novel was ''The Passion of Tasha Darsky'', originally titled ''Overture'' (Doubleday, 2007), about the contentious relationship between mother and daughter musicians. Her mother is the novelist and philosopher

Rebecca Goldstein Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (born February 23, 1950) is an American philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual. She has written ten books, both fiction and non-fiction. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy of science from Princeton University, and ...

, which caused speculation about whether the novel was autobiographical. In response, Goldstein Love said, "my mother's relationship with me is nothing like this. First of all, Tasha is nothing like my mother. She's this incredibly ambitious, incredibly driven woman. My mother's ambitious, but not like that." Goldstein Love graduated from Harvard College with a degree in philosophy. Her father is the mathematical physicist Sheldon Goldstein. Her parents are divorced and her mother married

Steven Pinker Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. ...

, the linguist and evolutionary psychologist. In 2011, Goldstein Love and fellow writer Jennifer 8. Lee founded a literary studio named Plympton, Inc. The studio focuses on publishing

serialized fiction In literature, a serial is a printing or publishing format by which a single larger work, often a work of narrative fiction, is published in smaller, sequential instalments. The instalments are also known as ''numbers'', ''parts'' or ''fascicle ...

for digital platforms. Its first series launched in September 2012 as part of the Kindle Serials program. It also launched the app Rooster, a mobile reading service for iOS7, in March 2014.

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