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I don’t think anyone would debate the fact that Adele has accomplished more in her 24 years than most people do in their entire lives. She’s rich and famous, she’s won nine Grammys, and she got Anna Wintour to put someone bigger than a size 2 on the cover of Vogue. But when HarperCollins offered her over a million dollars to write a memoir about her life thus far, she said no. More
If this doesn’t shake your belief in the essential fairness of the capitalist system, I don’t know what will. 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
As you may have heard, book lovers everywhere are outraged over the sexy makeover one publisher gave Anne Shirley, beloved protagonist of the Anne Of Green Gables series. As you can see, someone saw fit to replace that unsexy, ginger haired ten-year-old with a buxom blonde just dying for a roll in the hay. Amazon has since removed the offending image, but why stop there? This problem goes way beyond Anne Shirley. Here are nine other fictional characters who’ve been inappropriately made over on book covers. I hope you’re in the mood to yell at your computer screen. More
While I’ll never say Bridget Jones was a great model for single women with her whole obsession with weight and preference for assholes, I will admit that being single was part of her charm. More
Previously: Part I.
Goosebumps (any title): The “tomboy” label stuck with you years after you felt that you’d grown out of it. It didn’t matter how you dressed or how you wore your hair or how quiet and low you pitched your voice; girls never told you their secret crushes and boys never bothered to tease you in the hallways. You wore dozens of thin leather bracelets on each wrist every single day. 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
Take a minute to deal with the staggering loss of American Girl Doll Samantha Parkington. Take as much time as you need. Leave work, get some ice cream (just like Samantha did!) and weep. Just weep. For your childhood is … More
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Pauline Phillips, the woman behind the Dear Abby advice column, died today at the age of 94 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. The column will continue, written by Pauline’s daughter, Jean. Pauline told TMZ:
“I have lost my mother, my mentor and my best friend.”
She adds, “My mother leaves very big high heels to fill with a legacy of compassion,commitment and positive social change. I will honor her memory every day by continuing this legacy.”
We look back on some of Dear Abby’s best pieces of advice: More
This week marked the 50th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. As one of Plath’s most famous works and her only novel, the book has been read and beloved by millions of people all over the world. When I was a teenager, it touched me more than almost any other book, feeding me the compassion and empathy from another voice that I had been so hungry for. For this reason, I would up getting a Bell Jar tattoo on my ribcage as an adult. More
Gerda Lerner, the 92-year-old feminist icon and pioneer of women’s history, died last week, leaving behind an embarrassingly rich obituary. There’s not a sentence in it that won’t make you feel ashamed for ever looking at BuzzFeed or having a hangover. Gerda was amazing. More
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
