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The stack of reading in my bathroom currently includes the Winter 1996 issue of The Paris Review. This section of TPR's interview of Helen Vendler leapt out at me:

INTERVIEWER: What is your perception of your own power?

VENDLER: I can see that it seems a great deal of power to a young writer to be reviewed or not reviewed in The New York Times . ( Read more... )

I know a lot of you are FNL/Connie Britton fans, so I perked up when I saw this shirt. Proceeds benefit Planned Parenthood of Texas.

This entry was originally posted at http://bronze-ribbons.dreamwidth.org/372728.html. I see comments at DW, IJ, and LJ (when notifications are working, anyway), but not on feeds.

From 60 MinutesBob Simon [interviewer]: Barbara Jo Rubin - B.J. for short -- was one of the first female jockeys. She started out 44 years ago ( Read more... )

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