January 2012
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Cliff notes version of why I haven't been on...
I only got to see Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, Part Two, FINALLY, over the holidays a few weeks ago. And too many people on tumblr were posting those memes with photo collages and quotes from the movie when it came out. And I’m SO not the kind of person who reads the last page of a book before beginning it. I hate knowing things. I want to be surprised. The anticipation, the not...
WatchThis is Bella.*
When my sister asked me to send her a picture of Bella, just because, I thought, “Hey! Even better, I’ll send her a video of Bella being silly, or meowing after everything I say, because for some reason whenever I have my phone in hand and/or am chatting with someone on it, she feels deprived of attention and cries and meows and cries the whole time I’m on it....
Should Vanity Fair Be a Spelling Vigilante?
vanityfair:
Just as New York Times public editor Arthur S. Brisbane is concerned whether his newspaper should print lies or the truth, we here at V.F. looking for reader input on whether and when Vanity Fair should spell “words” correctly in the stories we publish.
One example: the word “maintenance” seems like it should only have one “a” in it. It should be “maintenence,” right? But it’s not....
July 2011
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“I’d like to write the encomium of a new incoherence that could serve as...”
– Fernando Pessoa as Bernardo Soares, The Book of Disquiet
June 2011
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May 2011
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The MFA Octopus: Four Questions About Creative...
lareviewofbooks:
Mark McGurl Frank Conroy © Bruce Davidson 1. Why do people hate creative writing programs so much? Well they don’t really, not everyone, or there wouldn’t be so many of them—hundreds. From modest beginnings in Iowa in the 1930’s, MFA programs have spread out across the land, coast to coast, sinking roots in the soil like an improbably invasive species of corn. Now,...
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Pulchritude
I love that the word pulchritude means beauty, grace, and loveliness, even though it sounds a bit ugly rolling off the tongue. It says something about the world. I’m not quite sure what that something is. But I like it.
April 2011
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Life Imitates Art
Geena Davis on how gender inequality on TV and in movies has a powerful impact on kids:
MS. BLUMENSTEIN: What does a parent do? Is there evidence that the more TV and movies that kids watch—does it have an impact on them?
MS. DAVIS: Definitely. They found that the more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she believes she has in life. And the more hours a boy watches, the more...
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March 2011
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