December 2011
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Yesterday at dinner K, JS & I took advantage of the ‘Kutsche’s brown paper tablecloths and made lists: five small superpowers we’d like to have, potential autobiography titles.(JS’s was Covered in Lipstick or a series of puns on his actual name, which invites them; K’s was Sexualize at Will, I think, though we might have eventually come up with a better one.) At...
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What You Deserve
Yesterday M texted to say that she’d written “about sex” for EmilyBooks; my iPhone autocorrected my response of “heyyyyy!” to the less salacious, more problematic “hefty!”
It turns out that this essay is not really “about sex” (though my standards on that front are probably internet-skewed at this point) but it is really great— as was...
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Not That Anyone Asked
Some of the Best Things I Read This Year, Culled A Little Bit From My Brain and Email But Mostly From This Tumblr:
The Percentages: A Biography of Class, Sady Doyle at Tiger Beatdown
Taste Has Never Met Shame: I Love You, Connor Oberst! by Ben Dolnick
Cowgirl Mouth, by Molly Lambert (though almost anything else she wrote could go here, too)
Yes There are Grocery Stores in Detriot, by James...
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There’s something obviously shameful about being an actual adult who reads fantasy fiction pitched at a young adult audience: they’re books about teenagers, for chrissakes, people who still live with their parents, and are fighting vampires or werewolves, or turning into vampires or werewolves. The idea that I’ll ever be a teenager again, beset by the woes of puberty and AP Calc and my own...