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New Yorkers: get your folk on with Garfunkel & Oates

March 2, 2010

Isn’t this photo fantastic? It was taken for BUST by Verity Smith and styled by Jazzi McGilbert. Although they sing like angels, these ukelele-toting cuties put the f*ck back in folk. Check out my interview with the sweetly sardonic Garfunkel & Oates in the Oct/Nov issue of BUST, and then go see them live. They’re [...]

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Ladies Man: Matt Bomer

March 2, 2010

My interview with White Collar star Matt Bomer is in the March issue of ELLE. Mr. Bomer is lovely! Considerate, nice, funny — a real pleasure to talk to. And if you think he looks good in this mug shot, you should see the photo in the magazine. Wowza!

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Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates

August 15, 2009

Little Bird of Heaven is vintage Oates: tragic violence, outsize ambitions, dashed hopes, strained family bonds, manly-men roughing up sassy-yet-submissive women, and, of course, sex-crazed teenagers.

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Word of the decade: philoprogenitive

August 11, 2009

philoprogenitive \fill-uh-proh-JEN-uh-tiv\ adjective *1 : tending to produce offspring : prolific 2 : of, relating to, or characterized by love of offspring Example Sentence As we move through our thirties, it has become abundantly clear that my female friends, colleagues and family members are more philoprogenitive than I am. antonyms: phoboprogenitive, progeniphobic, freaked-out, indecisive, ambivalent [...]

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We need more movies like Away We Go — but with better endings

July 5, 2009

Critics’ reviews of Away We Go made the film sound as enjoyable as eating a pint of curdled yogurt. Variety called it an “an oddly sour, unappealing road-trip scenario” that will appeal only to true fans (“fans” here obviously meaning “silly hipsters with questionable literary taste”) of the screenwriters, Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida. NPR’s [...]

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Cameron Diaz bravely speaks out against public shunning of ambivalent women

June 10, 2009

Now that she’s 36, I’m sure that the giddily gorgeous Cameron Diaz is constantly fending off questions about husbands and babies. When, with whom and even how women reproduce are no longer taboo subjects — in fact, they’re what Enquirer-minds want to know. And stars, even young, single ones, are always more than happy to [...]

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Why the long faces, ladies?: Researchers stumped by data that shows that women are grumpier now than they were in the 70’s

June 4, 2009

As much as I like to gripe about how much easier it was for my parents to afford stuff (like a mortgage, property, health care, and most importantly, a baby) when they were my age, I’ve never actually wanted to trade places with them. Even if I had a time machine (or a ticket for [...]

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Amy Poehler UNCUT!

March 11, 2009

There’s a teaser of my interview with the hilarious Amy Poehler in the April issue of ELLE, but the online version at ELLE.com is much longer, funnier and, if I do say so myself, more interesting. Here, the SNL veteran and long-time improvista has more room to talk about women and comedy, and how while [...]

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Gimme Shelter by Mary Elizabeth Williams

February 14, 2009

In exploring how the ability to buy a home reflects on our identity and sense of worth, Mary Elizabeth Williams sheds light on why so many people are willing to gamble their financial security and even their sanity for the sake of a home to call their own.

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Cylons 4ever!!!

January 18, 2009

A fellow Battlestar Galactica fan brought this awesome cake to the Season 5 premiere party we attended on Friday night. Perhaps he’s trying to say something here about the direction in which the show is going? “Cylons 4ever???”

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