Funny Women Around the Web, 2/12/09
The best part of editing the Funny Women column is developing e-mail relationships with various women. (Did I say various? I meant you. Only you.) Sabrina Veroczi of Booby Hatch* is my…
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Julia Weist at Idiom
“…I was outed on a chicklit book forum pretending to be a fan of the book and concealing my role as author. The forum administrator who suspended me was named…
Morning Coffee
The sorts of things people try to smuggle. Gary Chang’s sliding apartment. I would be pretty happy if these air cruise ships become a reality sooner rather than later (I…
The Rumpus Interview with Caris Reid
Caris Reid, twenty-six, lives and paints in a high-ceilinged space in Greenwich Village, not far from Bob Dylan’s first New York apartment. She mixes her paints in dozens of glass…
Woman’s Last Stand: Dodge Charger Commercial Spoof
Hey, horribly offensive Dodge Charger commercial, you’ve been served.
Cars are Always Funny and So are Landlords and Sex
“The affect, here, stems from the naive individual’s skewed encounter with systems larger than himself, an encounter which, reprised again and again, plays out Bergson’s first rule of comedy: that…
San Francisco’s Demographic Shift
“San Francisco’s Marcus Books has long been a gathering place for African-American authors such as Maya Angelou. But last year, manager Blanche Richardson faced the realization that the 50-year-old bookstore…
You Mean Writing Can’t Be My Career?!
“What the profiles fail to reveal is that the literary apprenticeship is a lengthy one for the majority, that getting published at all is difficult, and to get paid enough…
Things Not To Do In Your Debut Novel
“To sit down to read a novel is a mere fraction of the commitment required to write one, but in both cases the commitment must be made, and it needs…
FUNNY WOMEN #15: How to Move to San Francisco
First, abandon everyone you know and love. Say goodbye to friends, lovers, would-be lovers, American cheese, and sanity. You don’t need these things in San Francisco. You need isolation. You…
Iran News Links
Iran’s government and its supporters are celebrating the Anniversary of the Iranian Revolution. The Iranian opposition movement is using the holiday to protest the regime. Blood has been spilled. Street…
Kierkegaard Available in English
“In a just world, translators would be paid ten times as much as authors. Their work cannot be other than tedious, their names are soon forgotten, yet one has only…