Your to-read list for the day

-Flavia's post on some not-useful new-pope commentary. -Stephen Metcalf on the brand that is Brooklyn. -Robert Huber on race in Philad...

A good mind to write a letter

The comments left on ancient blog posts here tend to be on the furious end of the spectrum. What inspires someone to leave a comment on a po...

Scattered thoughts on a rainy day

-More foot-in-mouth racial insensitivity from " Into The Gloss ." Yes, I'm the Phoebe who commented. -The memo about not dress...

"The first piece you write that your family hates means you found your voice, I warn my classes. If you want to be popular with your parents and siblings, try cookbooks."

While Literature used to mean subtly alluding to anything racy, we're now in the age of Real Housewives on toilets, of Lifetime Movie fi...

Facebook over-over-analyzed

-A Twitter correspondant of a writer I met on the Internet before in person (how's that for bloggy?) interpreted my post about Facebook...

Takes all kinds? UPDATED

Long post, main point in bold: This is going to be my third - and last - attempt at a post about the question of the wives of gay men who, f...

Another 15 minutes for WWPD

I just had the somewhat surreal and entirely narcissistic experience of listening to a podcast (well, Bloggingheads ) while walking Bisou th...

Second attempts

-Sometimes I write a whopper of a post, and it will then occur to me a few days later that what I'd meant to convey could have been done...