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I’m happy that anyone is still writing at 105 – there’s hope for all of us! – However, when I heard that, I also thought, “Well, how racy can a 105 year old romance novelist be?” Umm, pretty racy, actually. More
According to Buzzfeed, Great Gatsby themed weddings are now a thing. While I love The Great Gatsby and would talk about it forever, this is the worst idea I have ever heard in my life. The worst. The absolute worst. This is why Great Gatsby themed weddings are doomed. More
Look, personally, I don’t think male shopaholics deserve to be objects of ridicule. I think that is something reserved exclusively for Buzz Bissinger. I think that largely because his GQ piece on his penchant for buying leather jackets reads like the parts of American Psycho that Bret Easton Ellis must have written when he was most hungover. I mean, look at this stuff. Just look. You cannot tell them apart. In fact, I challenge you to tell them apart. Now. Go. To try to keep them as anonymous as possible, I’m just going to put American Psycho screengrabs with all the quotes, but if you prefer to imagine Buzz Bissinger looking hilarious and pointing at the screen, you can. And answers are at the end! More
Yesterday, an editor at Esquire (Alex Bilmes) talked about the way women are portrayed in Esquire, and said:
“The women we feature in the magazine are ornamental. I could lie to you if you want and say we are interested in their brains as well. We are not. They are objectified..“[Esquire] provide pictures of girls in the same way we provide pictures of cool cars,” he said. “It is ornamental. Women’s magazines do the same thing.”
As Sam pointed out, this is one of those cases where people pretend that someone is being brave by saying an awful thing, when, in reality, they are still doing something awful.
Unless! Unless Esquire editors do not understand what objects are. I have a lesson for them. Take this quiz, and see if you can spot the objects vs. the human people. More
Well, supposedly. According to sources, an actress has been picked to portray Anastasia Steele in the upcoming Fifty Shades Of Grey movie, based on a really mediocre and not entirely sexy book that we are ashamed of having read. And the candidate doesn’t sound completely absurd! Maybe the movie will be better than the book! Like The Devil Wears Prada! More
Nothing but the title: 10%. Likely inscrutable, almost certainly excessively highbrow.
A person or persons in white robes standing near a pillar: 25%. Might be worth a gamble; might be outrageously dull.
A person or persons in white robes, standing near a pillar, in front of a background with two or more moons in the sky: 80%. Almost certainly excellent. Approaches 100% if there is a cat of unusual size somewhere near the spine.
Part of a woman’s face: 5%. Almost certainly a memoir of worst kind.
Part of a woman’s face, hazily obscured: 1%.
Rippling water: 0%. -10% if there is a woman’s face visible beyond the rippling water (the 10% means I will go watch a very bad movie instead). More
If you need to write a break-up letter (either because you have been broken up with, or because you are a heartbreaker yourself) you’re surely going to want to take advice from some famous authors who do it really, really well. Or badly. Actually, sometimes they are bad at break-up letters, too. And sort of petty! Let’s see what we can draw from this selection of famous author’s break-up letters on Flavorpill: More
A lot of people have been critiquing the cover art for the 50th anniversary edition of The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. They seem to think that the picture of a pretty woman staring at a vanity is not appropriate for a book that is about struggling with the idea of suicide. More
I bet you’re never going to guess who this handsome man is. I will give you a clue. He’s famous. More
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A weird all new edition of Fifty Shades of Grey is flying right at your face, like a tie, or a noose, or whatever other stuff happens in that book that I could never take seriously enough to finish. Just in time for Valentine’s day! I seem equally unlikely to read the new edition of Fifty Shades of Grey as I was with the last version, but, well, I guess some people will. Here is what you are going to find inside it: More
Lena Dunham’s book proposal is here. More
If you’ve ever read The Yellow Wallpaper, chances are you already have a terrifying vision of that room permanently etched into your brain, but it’s always neat to see someone else’s take on it, no? Artist Julia Callon has created a series of dioramas that accomplishes that and more. For her Houses Of Fiction series, Callon attempted to replicate the interiors from various works of 19th century lady-literature, spaces which, due to their protagonists’ confinement to the domestic sphere, had great (usually deleterious) effects on their psyches. “The dichotomous representation of women — mad or sane — is crucial to represent in this series,” writes Callon in her artist’s statement. “Therefore, each story is presented as a diptych: one image represents the passive, subservient woman, while the other represents ‘madness.’” Word. More
For heaven’s sakes. I don’t like Fifty Shades of Grey because I think it is a very, very badly written book, but this domestic abuse charity seems to be taking a very strong line on it. And by a “strong line” I mean “this is ridiculous.” More
The coolest woman in literature is probably Scarlett O’Hara, discussion over. More
