February 2012
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More on "Congratulations On Surviving Your Very...
A few people have emailed me in response to my post, “Congratulations On Surviving Your Very Interesting Life.” For the most part, the reaction has been, “WTF!” although one person reported feeling conflicted about the whole which-is-more-respectable-novel-writing-or-memoir-writing debate.
I think it’s a stupid debate, one of the stupidest ever. They’re just...
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Congratulations on Surviving Your Very Interesting...
Recently, I met a Celebrated Novelist. He asked me whether I write fiction, too, and I said, no, non-fiction was my thing - more specifically memoir and essays.
“Oh, then you must have had a very interesting life,” he said more smugly than I was able to acknowledge internally in the moment. I realize I’m defended against noticing when people slight me, or condescend to me....
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Scores of kids during last night's Grammy Awards,... →
I am reminded of a Billy Crystal joke from the 80s, which is now really dated. He said back then: “You know you’re old when your kid asks you, ‘Hey, did you know Paul McCartney was in another band before Wings?’”
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A sweet Super Bowl story, even for non-sports fans...
It was weird seeing all those Giants fans all over the city today. Weirder than seeing them, in their Giants hats and jerseys and shit, was hearing them bellow “Go Giants!” I don’t understand sports, but more than that, I don’t understand that level of fandom.
That said, I have a Super Bowl story that touched even me: My step-father’s 84-year-old brother Norman has...
“A former unpaid intern for the fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar filed a lawsuit...”
– This comes at a time when the magazine has cut its freelance pay rate in half, too. It hurts, it’s humiliating. But it’s still more than the Times and many other publications pay.
NY Times
Someone’s been reading Intern Nation…
(via millionsmillions)
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Molly Fischer’s essay about “ladyblogs” reminded me of something that blew my mind when I taught journalism at SUNY Albany in 2010 and 2011:
Most of my female students were devoted readers of Cosmopolitan and Seventeen magazines. In fact, many of them had those magazines’ websites as their home pages. These were journalism students - majors and minors. There was only one...