My Featured Book of the Month

How Not to Look Old
By:  Charla Krupp


Charla Krupp, who gained a national following by offering women advice on looking younger and thinner with best-selling books like “How Not to Look Old”.

“How Not to Look Old,” published in 2008, spent 15 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, rising to No. 2 in the advice and how-to category. It sold more than 300,000 copies, according to the book’s publisher, Grand Central Publishing.

At a moment when many women of a certain age in the United States were debating whether to Botox or not to Botox, the book provided nonsurgical suggestions on how to avoid the appearance of senescence, often delivered as capital-lettered pronouncements like: “NOTHING AGES YOU LIKE ... YELLOW TEETH.”

The book became a style manual intended for women of all stripes, whether they were sales clerks, homemakers, college professors or venture capitalists.

 The New York Times Bestseller