Rachel’s Team Pick: “My prototype of a woman was the type who would appear in hallucinations at the last moments of your freezing to death at the top of an icy mountain, a mythical beauty who blurred the line between dreams and reality.”
Today’s topics include living alone, Grey Gardens, Mary Karr, homophobia at an elite private school in Texas, Victoria Jackson and the influence of Pitchfork.
Rachel’s Team Pick: Trying to make a list of only 10 badass women writers is really hard.
So many short story books have at least a little touch of queer — like these from Dorothy Allison, Mary Gaitskill, Thisbe Nissen, Amy Bloom and more!
I read these things and I loved them. No honestly this one I think is especially good.
Topics include airport security, Stephen Colbert, Forever 21, Lucy Grealy and a surgeon who left his patient on the operating table to go cash his paycheck.
What will you read in 2012?
Whitney’s Team Pick: Maurice Sendak, author of “Where the Wild Things Are” is as brilliant and curmudgeonly as ever in this mini documentary. I love you, Maurice.
This week we’ll travel to North Korea, but also to Portland! Topics include oxy addiction, the NBA, wax museums and murder/suicide!
Hard times for Portland’s Just Out Newsmagazine, Toronto’s Glad Day’s bookstore and Minneapolis’ True Colors Bookstore.
Topics include pill culture, tough-love teen homes, Lorrie Moore, marketing, plane crashes and Justin Bieber!
Romance novels: they’re not just for straight people anymore. In this episode we have hot cops/FBI agents, congresswomen passing more than bills, and lots of folks playing doctor.
I want to help you have a conversation with Eileen Myles. It starts on the Internet.
Humans doing really terrible things to other humans!
“Middlesex” author Jeffery Eugenides new novel “The Marriage Plot” is really good! But is it really aptly described as “a feminist re-telling”? Not so much.
Topics include Trader Joe’s, symbolism, teacher-student affairs, muzack, quinceañeras and The West Memphis Three!
Fuzzy things are the most interesting, if you ask me.
The internet is a great place to read things!
True stories about terrible things.
Carmen’s Team Pick: That’s what rejection letters are y’all. They’re just mistakes.