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SLEEPLESS IN LONDON

Advice For the Just-Famous Author

A friend of mine used to teach creative writing at a community college, where most of her students were unemployed loggers. I’m telling this to my British publisher, Caroline, at a swanky dinner party in London, after a three-hour book signing. She’s beautiful sitting across from me, twisting a strand of long dark hair between […]

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The Backlash Backlash Movie

What’s Missing from Jesus’ Son

SORRY GUYS, but what comes around goes around. After, oh, a lifetime of movies where women are cast as “the girlfriend,” movies where they are undressed quickly by horny male hands, then flop around motel rooms in their underwear; movies where they stand on the sidelines and wince and squirm and get thrown out the […]

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