December 2010
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Looking back at 2010, part 1 (after drinking WAY...
Okay. Let me just say for a second that I feel a bit clichéd doing the whole “look back at 2010” bit, if only for the sense that everyone else is doing it. As a (primarily nonfiction) writer, though, I find it extremely ironic that I spend so much time writing about/thinking about/going crazy about my life — specifically, the past — and yet I’ve never done a “Looking Back” post or essay reflecting...
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ATTN: nerdy reader/writer types
I’m sure I’m due for some reflective post on 2010 and all the things that I failed at/learned/etc., BUT!
Something exciting caught my eye today, and in some ways renews my commitment to my “personal study” of Joan Didion (Didion, Daily: An Essay per Day). The NYTBR is having an edition on Criticism, as an email informed me, and I am really interested. It talks about the...
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girlvanized:
Over on Huffington Post, I just had someone say to me, “A woman isn’t a rape victim until the man is convicted. Until then she’s just an accuser.”
Crippled Christ on a fucking crutch. I think I’m going to throw up.
No, seriously.
(20% of women have been raped. 6% of rapists ever see a day in jail.)
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When all the sudden everything becomes real, the... →
I’ve been following David Olimpio, whom some of you may know as his online moniker notsolinear, for some time now. He, too, is a writer.
I have to say — I’ve been compulsively addicted to his creative writing blog as of late. I’ve looked at and thoroughly enjoyed his work before, but this — you can tell this is the truth, the gritty core, the harshness and the light all...
#MooreandMe, 5 Days and Running: Run it All the... →
Tiger Beatdown’s Sady Doyle gives an up-to-date guide to #MooreandMe, the accusations, and comments on camera/on the Internets by Moore, Olbermann, Doyle, and others involved. A must-read.
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Allegations 101: How to respond?
All the great discussion about #MooreandMe — specifically, how both we as people and the news media (I should probably say “pundits”) respond to rape allegations — has truly said a lot about rape culture. I’ve noticed that many people, women AND men alike, have been supportive of this movement instigated by Sady Doyle and a slew of others, which has criticized the dismissal of...
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Oh man: #mooreandme, liberal pundits, slut-shaming...
Really, the fact that Olbermann called the #mooreandme protest a “spectacle” is pretty outraging. Sady Doyle, whom I’ve followed on tumblr for a while now, is probably one of my heroes. Part of the ongoing social conversation about what’s okay, what’s not and what needs to change is sort of drawing larger (yet more subtle) issues out of other huge issues that purport to be about just...
Didion, Daily: An Essay per Day: On "Goodbye to... →
dailydidion:
“It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.”
When I read that first sentence, I knew I was reading what, for me, was a perfect essay for the time.
I was especially struck by it because I’ve been wrestling with turning my thesis, which I finished this summer,…
Finally. A legit post on Didion, Daily. Got to get myself back into the habit.
Career options
I’m pretty sure that I could spend the rest of my life reading Kundera’s body of work and pulling out choice quotes with which to plaster across the interwebs.
“Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How...”
– Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”
“I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it…I was meant to know the...”
– Joan Didion, The White Album (via dailydidion)
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Question:
I am trying really hard to understand the whole WikiLeaks deal. Due to the fact that I am not blind or deaf — and because I read news — I get the general idea. But is there an online archive of comprehensive stories regarding WikiLeaks, starting at the beginning and tracing its development? If so, can you ever-so-kindly direct me?
Also, it’s probably not a coincidence that I can’t...
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“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why...”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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hospital coffee
Hospital coffee: too hot, too dark, too severe for my liking. It tastes like everything I smell: overly chemical, lacking any personality.
I am currently sitting in the surgery waiting room, waiting for the doctor to summon me, to tell me that my mom is just fine. The reason: they had to run some of those highly-invasive, ridiculously expensive “tests” that they do like clockwork when you’re older...
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wherein the whole thing is turned on its head
It’s interesting how we think the stories we tell appear to the world. But the world has its own point of view. Does this discrepancy of view resemble an insoluble difference, though, or does the story essentially fail if readers don’t agree?
Naturally, this is a pretty classic (and timeless, and perhaps unsolvable) debate in lit classes and writing workshops throughout the...