On Free To Be... Straight White Males
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On Flashback! Sexy Lady Tells All, Sells Self, In 1997
I can't help but feel I'd still prefer that world to the one in which we have Thought Catalog to ponder these questions for us.
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On The Coming Real Estate Disaster for White-People Brooklyn
I think they're actually invading upstate, these hipsters. I hear tales from Hudson that would chill your soul.
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On I Have Thoughts About Commenting Systems!
Guys this feels really insidery.
My only request is for a system that actually forbids people from commenting from their Facebook accounts.
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On How To Get And Keep A Mentor
This is just one silly lady's opinion but: much better than these false "mentorships" from people you don't really know is to just do damn good work for someone you like and respect, and make sure the basis for your liking and respecting them is that they are genuinely kind and caring people who believe that their influence is a thing that should be shared with other smart, capable people. Then all you've got to do is demonstrate that. And even if it doesn't work out, you walk away feeling like you learned something from the experience. And not like you just got scammed by an evil soulless asshole.
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On On the Other Hand, Never Write a Book
What I want to know is why they don't have a cat. It is an insult to all cat loving Americans that there is no whitehousecat tumblr.
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On In Fabrication Uproars, At Least Everyone Agrees David Sedaris Is a Liar
@Moff Many fiction writers have so much autobiography in their work - or, minimally, personal psychodrama - that the distinction is not as clean as you make it sound here. Thus the distinction is often between writing where the narrator/protagonist shares a name with the author and writing where it does not.
Also, isn't it quaint of us to be discussing buying at bookstores, you and I! so 1997.
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On In Fabrication Uproars, At Least Everyone Agrees David Sedaris Is a Liar
I have many feeeeelings about this but they reduce to: I don't understand why all of these authors eschew the "fiction" label unless they genuinely feel that to be classified as fiction would constitute an insult to the work, all other things (or sentences) being equal.
So I'm not really weirded out by demanding, consequently, that they earn the apparent compliment of the nonfiction label by being honest. Note, though, that I said "Honest," not, "trial-transcript verbatim."
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On Will the Committee on Right-Thinking Blogging Have Secret Blog Tribunals???
@Maura Johnston It's a Blog Eat the Homeless world, Maura.
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On Free To Be... Straight White Males
@barnhouse Yikes, sorry! I just decided to eat jellybeans and listen to "Call Me Maybe" and then take a nap instead. Also didn't want to spoil readers of my forthcoming memoir: "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Become a Misandrist."