Not exactly someone to invite into your home

29Oct08

You can’t unsubscribe from Martha Stewart’s email list.  I’ve tried.  You just can’t do it.
 
It’s almost like she got out of prison and decided, “OK, world.  You locked me up.  So I’m going to gather email addresses like there’s no tomorrow – or at least like there’s five months in the pen and two years’ [...]

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Bootless cries

11Sep08

I cried out to God this morning and was surprised to hear not a thunderous response, nor a stern rebuke, nor a gentle cooing, but rather a velvet hush.  No, “hush” is too soothing, and “velvet” is too luxuriant.  It was more like a Mona-Lisa-smile of a sound.  No judgment, one way or the other.  [...]

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A branch on a cliff

09Apr08

In issue 41 of Paste Magazine, there’s an article about James Frey, the bestselling author whose memoir, A Million Little Pieces, was found to be a hoax.  Susanna Sonnenberg defends the notion of “emotional truth” that NYU professor Robert Boynton points to as well, and says that memoirs shouldn’t read like journalism and shouldn’t be [...]

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The beginning of joy (slideshow)

30Aug07

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Going 100 m.p.h.

04Feb07

The sheriff’s deputy put me in the back of his cruiser. I was surprised at how little leg room there was. It was fairly uncomfortable, and would have been all the more so had I been handcuffed like a criminal and forced to sit with my arms behind my back. I was kind of intrigued [...]

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