Slouching Towards Bethlehem
[New York, October 26. Image via Getty]
More Arrests In Lindsay Burglary; Cross Snorted Coke In Front Of Obama
- The LAPD has arrested four women in connection with break-ins at Lindsay Lohan and Audrina Patridge's homes.
Kanye West Headed To Court
- Kanye West has been charged with battery, theft and vandalism stemming from that incident last September in which he smashed a paparazzi's camera at LAX. He's planning a fly courtroom outfit right now. [TMZ, Mirror, Gatecrasher]
Woman Waives Anonymity To Say, "I Was Raped By My Father."
Candice Dinsdale, now 44, was just six when she was first sexually abused by her father Anthony Allen. Now she's gone public. But should that be so unusual?
This Week We Discovered Shoving Garlic Up Our Hoohas Was Srsly "Uncool"
- Picture it: the Jezebel nursing home, the year 2068. We'll turn on our headchips to watch the disembodied skull of Oprah host her show, and Jennifer Aniston, having been cryogenically frozen, will have been unfrozen just to make an appearance. Oprah will still ask Jen how she feels about Angelina Jolie and Jen will…
Joan Didion Is Kind Of A Downer About The Election
Last night, I went to see an event at the NYPL to celebrate the
New York Review of Books' 45th birthday. It was a and featuring a distinguished group of six panelists that included scholar Andrew Delbanco, writer Darryl Pinckney, and Joan Didion, the only woman on stage. The idea was for everybody to comment on the…
The
NY Observer caught up with Joan Didion and asked her what she thinks of . Didion, who was raised a but became a registered Democrat, : "I haven't figured it out. I have to sit down and write about it and try to figure it out…I mean, I think we all we all have high hopes, but who knows?" []
Joan Didion, arguably the best essayist of the late 20th century, has
a short piece on about the current election. She believe that all of the campaign noise — candidate's personal "stories," the "lipstick on a pig" repetition, the regurgitated talking points — has distracted us from the serious peril the country is…
Esquire Editors Not-So-Fondly Remember A Few Females Who Once Wrote For Them
So the other day
Esquire published its list of the . We noted that there was only one woman on the list, Flannery O'Connor, and this was their commentary on her book of short stories, , starting with an excerpt of hers: "She would of been a good woman... if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her…
75 Books Every Woman Should Read
Esquire put up a slideshow of , and it is indeed a very good list. However, it's a very good list that's also extremely myopic. It relies way too heavily on the old white dude cannon (particularly the WASP angst end of it) with books by Updike, Cheever, Kingsley Martin Amis, Hemingway, McPhee, Joyce, Roth, Mailer,…
More And More Judges Banning The Word "Rape" At Sexual Assault Trials
Tory Bowen, now 21, was roofied as a Nebraska college student, and when she awoke, according to the Kansas City Star, she was being raped. Sounds pretty straightforward, but a judge in Lincoln prohibited Bowen from using the word "rape" during her testimony. The term "sexual assault" was also verboten. The judge…
Joan Didion: The Female Writer For Men Who Don't Want To Feel Like Pussies
Most psuedo-intellectual college age girls who fancy themselves writers will, at some point, worship at the altar of Didion (or maybe that was just me and all my poseur friends!). [No, it wasn't just you. -Ed.] Anyway, in today's Washington Post, resident book critic Jonathan Yardley discusses his "on-and-off love…
