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Unlike Blume, Klein mostly found the whole thing amusing. In the summer of 1982, Publishers Weekly came out with a list of the most banned writers in America, which included Solzhenitsyn, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and D. H. Lawrence. “Judy Blume and I were the only women writers on the list, as well as the only authors of books for childr
... See moreRachelle Bergstein • The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
the age of the celebutante
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
Lauren Bravo • Hey Mr DJ, put a podcast on
That night I eat a giant plate of pasta at the hotel bar for dinner and drink a martini and text with old friends. I sit on a couch in the lounge, half reading Mary Karr’s On Memoir and half watching people who are inexplicably younger than me living lives there is now no chance of me ever knowing except in this one little moment that I am watching
... See moreJessi Klein • I'll Show Myself Out
She ate one meal a day, at lunchtime—ham-and-cheese roll-ups drizzled with honey. Otherwise, she drank can after can of Diet Coke in the morning, and then about midafternoon she switched to mango margaritas, and the margaritas saw her out. She said this was pandemic behavior, but the only kitchen equipment she brought with her when she moved in was
... See moreKatherine Heiny • Games and Rituals
I think there’s a safety in girlhood, in the mistakes and the naïveté, the youth and maybe even the beauty, which is all pushed by the media we consume,” Ms. Reese said. “Womanhood, meanwhile, is seeped with this lack of playfulness, seriousness, aging — the horror, right?”
New York Times • Why ‘Girls’ Rule the Internet
