February 2012
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What I Read This Month: February
The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank. If you are like me and somehow made it through high school without having read this book, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR. Read it. Make sure you read the unabridged version, where they left in all the catty things she says about her attic-mates. Because to me, the statement, “I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart,” is...
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This Interview With the Women of "Community" Will... →
Ganz: In Episode 308, we had that thing about Shirley not wanting to get the “sassy note.” You had said to me that that had happened to you once.
Brown: Female friends that are in my tribe, black girls, we all have stories about that. We find interesting ways to make [directors] tell us to be sassy because they know that it’s racist. I say, “Can you show me how to do that?” They don’t want...
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“To be honest, I felt hysterical: that Victorian word for the tantrums of...”
– Meg Clark at The Rejectionist on the whole Edith Wharton/That Guy debacle.
I am really behind on my New Yorkers (cool thing to say) and so I haven’t read the piece in question yet. The piece is by That Guy I’ve mentioned here probably too much already, whose name I will not write again...
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“I don’t remember my favorite class in high school, but I remember that I carried...”
– “Fever Pitch,” by Morgan Macgregor
This essay hits a little too close to home. Recently I realized that the one thing my manuscript is seriously missing is a story about all-consuming fan love, a serious component of my girlhood. But maybe there’s a whole novel in the fact that,...
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OSCARS
The other day I saw that E!’s red carpet countdown starts at 1:30 p.m. rather than the traditional noon, and I said, “This is bullshit!” out loud and I think in the future when they write epic poems about our relationship, that will be the moment they record as the one in which Kevin lost all respect for me.
Just now in class I couldn’t concentrate for the last hour...
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Girl Stuff
My manuscript is starting to feel like a real book, with themes and a title and everything. The title of the book is the title of this blog post. I didn’t come up with it; my committee chair did. She found it in the story where the girl falls in love with wax FDR. Wax FDR finds her crying and she says it’s just girl stuff, and wax FDR says it’s human stuff. Girl stuff is human...
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My First Loves, Part Two:
In the first or second grade I sent a fan letter to the set of Full House and a few months later got, in return, a postcard with a picture of the cast on it and a message like, “Thanks for watching!” (and not “Why don’t you come guest-star in a three-episode arc as Michelle’s sassy but adorable new best friend?” which is what I had been, in truth, expecting [I...
My First Loves:
Kermit the Frog
Linus Van Pelt
Homeless teen Luke Brower
Mike Nesmith
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“After dropping down dresses for Cinderella’s ball, and discovering the...”
– “Birds,” by Aimee Bender.
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Mouse Rat’s version of “The Way You...
“I think that’s one of the hard parts about being a teenager is...”
– Lionel Shriver
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I'm just going to leave these two quotes from...
“It’s doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.”—The Guardian
“I’m just saying my hit-counter’s going crazy. I’m getting hot-linked all over the world.”—Freedom
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