January 2012
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“I am not sure whether, even if I had welcomed it, these women would have wanted...”
– Emily Books: Almost-Mentors
by Megan Marz. More on this mentoring thing soon … we have a very weird and cool event in the works
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Ladies, Women and Girls
I found Molly Fischer’s essay about Jezebel, The Hairpin, xojane.com and Rookie interesting, provocative, and deeply frustrating. Her dissection of these blogs’ aesthetics and the rhetorical styles they’ve bred in their commenter-bases is skillful, but what is its point? There are a lot of filler posts and overt invitations to commenter sycophancy on blogs. This is a little...
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Sippin’ On The Stock Of The Bay
americastestkitchen:
Cook’s Illustrated executive editor Amanda Agee ladles herself a tray full of samples of water in which bay leaves had been steeped for various amounts of time during a taste test for an upcoming Kitchen Notes entry. See more behind-the-scenes photos at: http://bit.ly/o0qi36
PSA: this is a great tumblr to follow if you love taste tests, recherché cooking tips and dumb...
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“There was a moment in the office, my third year in the business. It was past 7pm...”
– Emily Books: A Mentor by Nature
by Lauretta Charlton
buy Sempre Susan!
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“It took me weeks to get up the courage to show her any of my work, though she,...”
– Emily Books: “There’s hope for you, too:” an excerpt from Sempre Susan
*chills*
BUY IT.
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“How would you distinguish the feminism in your work from your mother’s or from...”
– Emily Books
Last night, Marco Roth asked Emily Carter this question and I desperately wish I had transcribed her entire response. I don’t want to misquote her but I do remember that the sense of it was that her writing itself, the fact of its existence, is a feminist act. “When you...
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“Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible...”
– Luca Turin, quoted in The Emperor of Scent
I read this aloud to someone who said “Don’t think of that as an excuse to fuck around on the Internet”
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very small personal victory
“That’s real blonde, isn’t it?” said a voice behind me. I was dancing in a minidress, dripping with sweat and making eyes at every man and woman in the half-lit nightclub. Wait, no: I was in the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station, which despite recent renovations is one of the saddest places known to New York public transit. The whole thing is basically constructed from rat...
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“The bawdy humor makes it easy to ignore the quality of the writing—and then to...”
– Emily Books: What Glory Gets
by Alice Gregory
“It’s easiest when you have a lot to get rid of some of it, so then you can have...”
– Emily Books: Getting Rid of Some
by Zan Romanoff
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“I used to go to Al-Anon, largely because I couldn’t afford therapy,” I said,...”
– Emily Books: The Same Situation
Sari Botton reflects on her interview with Emily Carter
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Trash swan
This is a game Ruth and I made up today when we were sitting around drinking coffee and trying to wrap our minds around the idea of emerging into a New Year/putting on real pants. I woke up with the Katy Perry song about smelling like a minibar stuck in my head and so I’d been thinking about KP, specifically about how she and Zoeey Deschanel, in addition to being human beings, also seem like...
