The All Jane No Dick controversy continues! Ian Karmel just released this video in support of All Jane, following the news last week that the very popular, all-female comedy festival (which starts TONIGHT!) is getting protested. If you are an MRA, you are about to get stared at disapprovingly: Also, #yesalljane is a thing on […]
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Critics Share Feelings About Lena Dunham’s Memoir (and So Do I!)
Random House Our review of Lena Dunham’s new memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, comes out in today’s paper! To celebrate, here are some wonderful/horrifying excerpts from other people’s reviews of the book, lovingly collected by Maggie Lange at Vulture, who writes, “I read 23,219 words (a respectable novella!) worth of reviews, and I’m here […]
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Someone is Putting Up Posters Protesting This Year’s All Jane No Dick Comedy Festival
Everyone I know right now is counting down the days to All Jane No Dick, our wondrous celebration of women in comedy, so at least three people have emailed me today about this poster: Stacey Hallal/All Jane No Dick It’s a doctored version of All Jane’s promotional poster, the original text replaced with what looks […]
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Tomorrow Night: Derrick Brown Reads Poetry For People Who Hate Poetry
Derrick Brown Do you hate poetry? I understand. There are few things more excruciating than sitting through a dull poetry reading as your life flashes before your eyes and a stranger’s gently quavering voice is slowly burned into your psyche forever. If you have had this experience, I am sorry. If you hate poetry, I […]
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Here’s What Would Have to Happen to Keep In Other Words Open
In Other Words Closing? On Sunday, Madeline Jaross, an In Other Words Board member, told the Oregonian that the nonprofit, volunteer-operated feminist bookstore and community center might close at the end of of February. She cited a lack of financial resources, low board retention, and a shortage of volunteers as contributing factors. She told the […]
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Patrick Modiano Wins Nobel Prize in Literature, Murakami and Roth Fans Freak Out Right on Schedule
So excited to read 80 Phillip Roth Snubbed Again, the Nobel Doesn’t Even Matter think pieces today.— Jessa Crispin (@thebookslut) October 9, 2014 The Nobel Prize in Literature was announced today, and the winner is… Patrick Modiano? You probably haven’t read him unless you are French, or took French literature in high school and pretended […]
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This Isn’t Our Town
Life Is Boring and Death Is Terrifying in Third Rail Rep’s Middletown
Life is boring and death is terrifying in Third Rail Rep’s Middletown.
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David Cronenberg’s Debut Novel Exists and Sounds Insane
Scribner Cannibalism. David Cronenberg (yes, that one) is breaking into fiction! His debut novel, Consumed, is out now from Scribner. I have nothing clever to say about that, because I guess life takes us to unexpected places, except I’m glad it’s not another poetry collection by James Franco. Here’s the wacky synopsis from an, uh, […]
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“Put ‘Vaguely Offensive, Very Charming’ On My Headstone”: A Conversation with Laurie Kilmartin
Laurie Kilmartin makes me laugh like a tiny, ticklish child who’s been mainlining Pixi Stix. Her jokes are delightfully uncensored and manage to be both vaguely offensive and very charming—a phrase she suggested be put on her tombstone when I used it in our interview—and cover all manner of subject matter, from having a kid […]
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Margaret Atwood is Writing a Book in the Future!
Reigning Queen of Dystopian Literature Margaret Atwood is stepping up her game from merely writing about the future to writing a book that can only be read IN THE FUTURE! According to reports from i09 and Pacific Standard, Atwood’s book will be shrouded in mystery by something called Future Library until 100 years from now, […]
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Did You Pay for That?
Kate Bingaman-Burt’s Obsessive Consumption
More, More, More showcases Kate Bingaman-Burt’s visual investigations into consumption.
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Daddy Issues
Patricia Highsmith Movie Needs More Patricia Highsmith
The Two Faces of January leaves out Patricia Highsmith’s signature complexity.