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If you’re procrastinating and looking for something to read, how bout spending some time on Fresh Yarn? I just found this essay by Elise Miller, about how she slept with the lead singer of Depeche Mode when she was 15, and it is hilarious and wonderful. I love stories about smart women’s groupie pasts…
I think [...]
Bitch magazine has a sweet new Web site! And their anthology comes out in August. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
Caryn James spends more than 1,000 words picking at Jennifer Aniston in the Times. It’s a seriously weird sort of tirade, kind of catty (and I hate that word) disguised as critical:
The relationship with Mr. Vaughn itself may have cost Ms. Aniston sympathy. In terms of her image it doesn’t even matter if that relationship [...]
I just finally filed my FAFSA and paid my electric bill! And my apartment is so clean and verging on organized that it’s freaking me out how much I resemble a productive member of society. I got rid of 2 huge garbage bags of clothing this weekend (this after letting various people pick over the [...]
Anya Kamenetz has been writing about “generation debt” for the Voice for over a year, and since I’m about to enter a life of debt myself (at least once I get around to applying for those student loans), I’m getting interested. Her book – Generation Debt: Why Now is a Terrible Time to Be Young [...]
the irony never ends…
Condaleeza Rice spoke at Boston College’s graduation, where she was – surprise surprise – greeted by protest. But she didn’t ignore them:
She acknowledged the protests, receiving applause after urging graduates to consider perspectives different from their own.
“There is nothing wrong with holding an opinion and holding it passionately,” Ms. Rice said. “But at those [...]
grrrrrrrr.
There’s nothing like some good old fashioned rage at the literary establishment to get a girl’s blood pumping on a gray Thursday morning:
Early this year, the Book Review’s editor, Sam Tanenhaus, sent out a short letter to a couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors and other literary sages, asking them to please identify “the [...]
If I could travel through time, I would go to the 50’s and get people to make dresses that did not have teeny tiny waists, so that I could buy them on ebay right now.
Last Friday: Steve Almond and Julianna Baggott read from the new novel they co-wrote, Which Brings Me to You. I looooove Steve Almond, but had never heard him read before. He was just as hilarious and crass as I wanted him to be. His short stories (check out collections My Life in Heavy Metal and [...]
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I heart Kurt Andersen, always, but especially for his new New York magazine article:
The schadenfreude also has a righteous tint: Just as the Duke-lacrosse-team case confirms ugly stereotypes about privileged white jocks, Kaavya Viswanathan, the only child of a brain surgeon and gynecologist, confirms the invidious stereotype of privileged meritocrats gone wild. She is a [...]