More happens in the first fifty pages of Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky than in entire novels I’ve read this year. It’s the lightning speed of the story that makes this book so damn hard…
Date Archives November 2010
Nothing worth sharing like the love that let us share our name
This might be my very favorite Thanksgiving photo of all time. Liam, my five-year-old nephew, really loves corn. However, eating corn can be a bit of a challenge when you’re still developing your hand-eye coordination….
This year I am thankful for everything
When tragedy unexpectedly visits your life so close to Thanksgiving you become thankful for everything. While we should spend every day thanking our lucky stars for all that we have, we don’t. It’s easy to…
Jodi’s Favorite Things, or Suck it, Oprah
I’ve seen it blogged about, tweeted around, and now it’s inescapable as I watch the “CBS Morning News” or whatever this news crap is called on CBS in the morning before Ellen. Every other commercial…
6 essential books from the last 25 years written by women
One of my Twitter pals admitted today that after reading my post about Flavorpill’s awful sexist literary lists he realized there were no books written by women in his list of personal favorites. I pondered…
Things that have caused me to throw my head back and whine like a 2 year old, a list
I have a cold. I’ve had it since Friday and it has reduced me to a snotty (literally) 2-year-old brat (figuratively). Things that have caused me to whine audibly in a manner unbecoming a 38-year-old…
Literary husbandry
In my head if Mary Gaitskill’s writing and Philip Roth’s writing were to meet, have sex, and create a baby, that baby would be Gina Frangello’s writing. I choose Gaitskill because, like Frangello, she writes…
10 of Flavorpill’s most sexist literary lists
10 essential books from the last 25 years includes only one book written by a woman, White Teeth by Zadie Smith. Top 10 Sidekicks in Literature, one Hermione from Harry Potter, only mentioned in conduction…
It begs the question, why are you such an annoying pedant?
Ha! I fooled you. That’s not begging the question at all. No, in fact begging the question, is a form of logical fallacy. In this case begging the question would be something like: Jodi is…
Hold me closer, Tiny Cooper
This is the tale of two Will Graysons. Capitalized Will Grayson who is BFFs with Tiny Cooper, a huge gay football star at their high school. And lower case will grayson who is a depressed…