Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Does Rachel Maddow Have a Girlfriend?
Last night I went to a special live broadcast of Rachel Maddow’s Air America show at the State Theater, and it was grand. It was relaxing, just like listening to the radio, except we were treated to all the artless and fascinating gestures one never gets to see, like Maddow slipping her giant headphones on […]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Admit It
Aren’t we all just a little sick, by now, of The Vagina Monologues? I’m old enough to remember when they first came out in 1996. I remember seeing pictures of Eve Ensler performing them, as the show first began to gain momentum and popularity. I was in awe of her—I thought she looked so beautiful […]
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Playing Quidditch for the Other Team
(a.k.a. Why Rowling’s “Outing” is a Literary Crime.)
Umberto Eco wrote that authors should die when their novels are complete, so as not to “trouble the path of the text”—advice Harry Potter’s J.K. Rowling has clearly chosen to ignore. Not only has she thus far refused to die, but last October she stirred the cauldron of […]