Curtis Sittenfeld: "For naming characters, I love the Social Security Administration's most popular baby names site." [New York Times]
Matchmaker, Matchmaker: Why Playing Cupid's A Bad Idea
Novelist Curtis Sittenfeld's Salon essay on disastrous matchmaking got us thinking about the perils of being a Yenta.
What Will Laura Bush Reveal In Her Memoir?
This Week We Discovered You Can't Spell Palin Without PAIN
- We've gotten a lot of emails this week whining about the excess of Palin coverage. But you know what Palin hates more than anything — whiners! If you whine, the terrorists win…Or something. Anyway, check out what Judge Judy thinks
about Sarah Palin. - Also check out what American Wife author Curtis Sittenfeld thinks…
Social Awkwardness, Long Odds & Sarah Palin: A Chat With Curtis…
Prep's Curtis Sittenfeld wrote this novel about how she imagined Laura Bush's life (it involves abortion and fucking dykes too!) and some of my friends have copies but they are bad friends because they lent them to other non-blogging friends before they lent them to me. Curtis has long had a girlcrush on Laura Bush,…
The Chick Lit Cat Fight Chronicles.... Might Be A Witty Title For A…
Meet author Katherine Taylor. (Her narrator is called "Kath," too!) She never thought she was pretty, always thought she looked like a boy. (What is up with these pretty girls — ahem, ScarJo — saying they think they look like boys? Anyway, Kath thinks she writes as well as any boy, which is why she is the latest entrant …
