December 2011
27 posts
“For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as...”
– Caring for Your Introvert - Magazine - The Atlantic
WatchThe best of Parks and Recreation’s Donna, who has lately outpaced April and Andy to become my second-favorite character on this show. (There is no debate as to who is the first-favorite.)
How Not to Write a Book
Pick an incredibly complex subject.
That requires talking to people you don’t know.
Despite the fact that you are incredibly afraid of talking to people you don’t know.
Have a baby.
Even though you can’t really afford childcare.
And go off your medication.
Even though doctors are pretty sure you need that medication.
(But what’s wrong with a few nervous...
“There are certain things about women that men will never understand, in part...”
– For me, reading Caitlin Flanagan’s honeyed words is not so different from the bronchitis I’m currently recovering from. I really want to keep coughing because I think that this time, surely, the cough will be productive and afterwards I will feel better. Instead I just get a knot of...
Personality Quiz: Which Regency Hero Should You... →
This, perhaps inevitably, was my result:
The Genius Gentleman spends a great deal of time inventing clever things in his private laboratory in the Cotswalds. He often forgets to eat. On the run from your murderous uncle, your perfect handwriting leads to employment as his amanuensis. You quickly make a friend of the book, straighten out the household accounts and bring him a cup of chocolate ...
News Desk: Hitch : The New Yorker →
On assignment in Palm Beach, Hitchens scored an invitation to dine at the town’s most exclusive, and allegedly anti-Semitic, country club. Though he admired Trotsky, truth be told Hitch revelled in the high life. But having discovered his own Jewish heritage late in life, he was hell-bent on making the most of it. After generous libations at the bar, Hitchens and a small party of friends,...
WatchI make no secret of my love of Lifetime movies. This appears to be the Citizen Kane of the genre. (Which would make Mother May I Sleep with Danger? its Godfather—and Tori Spelling its Marlon Brando.)
(via Vulture)
Surprisingly, I am less sure than this guy on...
An epic point-by-point rebuttal of today’s infuriatingly Slatey why-bookstores-actually-suck piece.
towirr:
A gentleman named Farhad Manjoo just posted a proudly contrarian article on Slate explaining why independent bookstores are not only irrelevent but maybe even harmful. I work at an independent bookstore, so that’s an argument I’d be very very curious to see made well. Honestly, I...
“…if you are compelled to lie about one aspect of anybody’s history, you...”
– “A Talk to Teachers” James Baldwin, 1963
“They also accused her of being sardonic, and although there was uncertainty...”
– P.D. James, awesomely, in Death Comes to Pemberley
“But for attraction to turn to infatuation, there have to be physiological cues,...”
– I could read Jennifer Crusie’s essays about Buffy all day, every day.
Jennifer Crusie | Dating Death: Love and Sex in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Racism Overruled in Kentucky Church →
“The interracial couple will go on with their lives, popping out mixed-race babies and living happily ever after. The old racist will sit alone, weeping into his liver-spotted hands and being very confused with the world.”
tan3000:
ha, well for all those tracking this tumblr’s Kentucky Gulnare FREEWILL Baptist Church beat (caps mine), it looks like the ride is over. Racism has...
