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more about #bookreviews more comments → MIXED: Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God is AMAZING. Like, so so so so good. more » Scout: I'm way behind the curve. The spine of White Teeth is visible in my bookcase - I've never read it - is it absolutely worth reading or something I ca... more » judgingamy: I love Smith's White Teeth. She is a beautiful writer. I've struggled getting through On Beauty too, even though it has some pretty great lines every ... more » Diziet_Sma: I can't stand the way she writes, it's so pompous. more » badmutha: She does sound like a very smart, well read person. It is funny that she talked about her feelings in Hurston's novel because I had those similar feel... more » emfish55: "It also provides a corrective to the opposite but equally restrictive notions that we can only enjoy books whose writers we identify with culturally,... more » PilgrimSoul: Oh gosh, Anna, I couldn't disagree more. I liked Smith a lot more before she appointed herself as some kind of philosopher of the novel - I mean that... more » TheFormerJuneBronson: And we're not capable of being fooled! Not even by a woman! #shitnormanbatessays more » IamnotStarJones: She's white America's Madea. more » canthelpmyself: This is certainly Sarah Palin week on Jezebel. I feel like a stumbled into a bad movie, "The Sarah Palin Chronicles: Rise of the Brain Dead". more » Percy: Just to give credit where credit is due: Hyacinthe Phypps is journalist Mel Juffe. Mr. Gorey is responsible for the illustrations, obviously, but not ... more » WittyPiracy: "Deflowered by some guy you picked off craigslist." more » duckwise: I am terribly upset this wasn't available when I was making my wedding invitations. more » TRexstasy: Hey, Sadie, not to nitpick, but I think you meant "wrought". more » lilbobbytables: I need this. I need this so bad. Why can't payday be right now?! more » -
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Changing My Mind: On Fiction, Race, And How 50 Cent Is Like Samuel Beckett
Zadie Smith established herself as a literary wunderkind when she published White Teeth at the age of 25. Her collection of essays on topics ranging from Zora Neale Hurston to 50 Cent shows she's grown into something more.
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The Recently Deflowered Girl: A Reissue, A Review
Obviously, we ordered this newly-reissued book immediately, eager for advice. Yes, Edward Gorey, the master of pen-and-ink, tackles what to say after Deflowerment-by-Marimba-Player, Deflowerment-on-Cross-Country-Bus, and, obviously, Deflowerment-at-Seance. But the modern age has wraught a whole new batch of dubious occasions: More » -
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Going Rouge: Feminists Weren't Fooled Once, Won't Be Fooled Again
Is there anything left to say about Sarah Palin? Going Rouge, the just-released liberal answer to Palin's memoir, has something to say, which is that strikingly little has changed about her a year later. That's both good and bad news.
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"Palinizing" Prejean, Prejeanizing Palin: Two Conservative Women Look Out For #1
Carrie Prejean has complained of being "Palinized" — that is, discriminated against because she's a conservative woman — but she and Sarah Palin have more in common than just a victim complex.
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Is It Time To Stop Listing "Best" Books?
Publishers Weekly didn't include any female authors on its list of the 10 best books of 2009. Is a counter-list in order, or should we just do away with such lists entirely? More » -
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Superfreakonomics: Not That Super Or Freaky
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, authors of Superfreakonomics, cast themselves as iconoclastic contrarians. But in many ways, their book is actually pretty conventional.
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Am I Dating A Werewolf? And Other Questions For Francesca Lia Block
You may scoff at the mere idea of a dating guidebook. You may almost certainly scoff at one that matches people by their mythological creature -type. I did too at first, and I have a professional astrologer on speed-dial.
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Bright-Sided: The Negative Consequences Of Positive Thinking
According to Barbara Ehrenreich's Bright-Sided, the much-vaunted "power of positive thinking" won't cure cancer, make us rich, or necessarily even keep us happy. In fact, it may be harming us.
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Impossible Motherhood: An "Abortion Addict" Tells Her Story
In Impossible Motherhood, Irene Vilar writes, "I want to explore how when abortion takes on repetitive and self-mutilating qualities it can point to an addiction." But her book is really an exploration of a single tragedy-stricken life.
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Prospect Park West: In Park Slope, Hell Is Other Parents
In the much-ballyhooed Prospect Park West, Amy Sohn welcomes her readers to Park Slope, where the women are mean, the men are asexual, and all the children wear kneepads.
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Mad, Bad & Sad: History Of Female Mental Illness Turns Into Indictment Of Psychotherapy
From force-feeding to tooth removal to stomach surgery, mental patients throughout history — many of them women — have endured some pretty horrific therapies. In Mad, Bad & Sad, Lisa Appignanesi questions whether modern treatments are much better.
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The Gift Of Fear: How To Prevent Another Gym Rampage
The gym where George Sodini went on his shooting rampage reopened this weekend, and today, we look at a book that some believe could help prevent future violence there and everywhere: Gavin de Becker's The Gift of Fear.
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Everything Sucks: Why Americans Love Prep School Stories
Hannah Friedman's Everything Sucks is billed as the anti-Gossip Girl, but it speaks to the same cultural obsession: a combined envy of and disgust for the very rich and very young.
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Are All Female Friends Really Frenemies?
I'm So Happy For You, a new novel by novelist Lucinda Rosenfeld, makes female friendships seem like a supremely unpleasant, never-ending status game.
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Wintergirls: Possibly Triggering, Definitely Thought-Provoking
Is Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson's young adult novel about anorexia and bulimia, a dangerous trigger for eating-disordered readers, a thoughtful examination of a terrible disease, or both? We read it to find out. [Spoilers follow.]
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Bad Mother, Good Writer
"A good mother [...] doesn't need her kids to like her all the time. Of writers and their readers, Waldman's book leaves me thinking, the same might be true." — Susan Dominus [NYT] -
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Bad Mother Promises "Maternal Crimes," Delivers Misdemeanors
Ayelet Waldman, who famously wrote about loving her husband more than her kids, just published Bad Mother, a parenting memoir she describes as a "f&%k you to the insane Urban-Baby types."
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Cosmo's Helen Gurley Brown: Maybe Not Such A Bad Girl After All
In Bad Girls Go Everywhere, Jennifer Scanlon tries hard to make Helen Gurley Brown look like an unjustly overlooked feminist icon — and she kind of succeeds.
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