• Not only did this chick enjoy her Gotham Writers' Workshop class, but she even eventually got a book deal from it. Hell, meantime, has frozen over. [Belle in the Big City]
• The Assimilated Negro discovers what it's like to be a woman in New York. [TAN]
• The Broadway version of The Color Purple, which opened last night, reduces once (semi-) intelligent critics to phrases like "bright, shiny" and "nicey-nice." [GalleyCat]
• Every classy Post editor Col Allan send his departing crosstown rival Michael Cooke a special farewell gift: Women's shoes. [The Politicker/NYO]

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