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citizen kerry
Someday i'm going to understand America. Until then, I have this blog.
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i’d love to read a magical realism novel in which a protagonist (me) becomes an olympic gymnast
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Spring in Washington Square!
I don’t know about you, but I can’t stop thinking about Patti Smith every time I walk through this place. Thanks a lot, Just Kids!
These days, sexism is a bit like Meryl Streep, in a new film: sometimes you don’t recognise it straightaway. You can be up to 20 minutes in, enjoying all the dinosaurs and the spacefights and the homesick Confederate soldiers, before you go, “Oh my God — under the wig! THAT’S MERYL.”
Very often, a woman can have left a party, caught the bus home, washed her face, got into bed, read 20 minutes of The Female Eunuch and put the light out before she puts the light back on again, sits bolt upright and shouts, “Hang on—I’VE JUST HAD SOME SEXISM AT ME. THAT WAS SOME SEXISM!
Caitlin Moran’s How to be a Woman
I’d type the entire book here for you if it weren’t a) illegal and b) hard to read on a blog. My friend Rachel told me about How to be a Woman when I was in London, and I thought, wow, a book with that title has to be a little bit interesting. And oh my stars! I’m taking the local train around town (essentially tripling my commute time) in order to avoid that moment when I have to put down this book.
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I’m almost proud of the NYT books editors for getting this so wrong.
