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more about #joandidion more comments → BookishLookish: Also, judging from that photo, it looks like Jill and Joan could be twins. more » kneetoe: The real poetry here is the shift from "Towards" to "Toward." Genius! more » Paul.B.Dodd: I want a puppy but I'm afraid my cat won't accept the puppy and she will wreck havoc in our humble abode. more » snugbug: Wow. Jill Abramson sure has my personal number and knows how to bring out the Stalin-gothic censoring b*tch inside of me. Congrats! Under most any oth... more » BookishLookish: Play With It While It Lays more » Rozelle’s Bagman: Tune in next week for "Notes on Chomp" more » Yahtzii: It's a puppy. There are zillions of them. People adopt and begin raising puppies literally every day. I got a 7-week-old puppy in November and did it ... more » secretagentman: I'm sorry, but that puppy is sooooo adorable. I want one right now. more » Nice Beaver: You'll all feel silly when she hits us with the next installment, Yelping in Sodom, detailing Scout's ritualistic punishment. more » iplaudius: Of course, there are those who would consider Didion’s appropriation a fatuous not to say pretentious flattening of the Yeats. more » City_Dater: And both their first names begin with J, so clearly she's onto something at least as compelling and profound as GOODBYE TO ALL THAT with this doggie d... more » Trulymadlyme: Wow. That's horrible. Like. Seriously -- Horrible. more » interpretedworld: And what rough beast, its hour come round at last/Chews toward Bethlehem to be born? Mm. No, not quite. Perhaps if you gave that "chews" a second s... more » Forgetitjake: This post is a fake gotcha. The headline calls the journalist out for "expose[ing] affair-having friend" and so I clicked through. But nobody is expos... more » BookishLookish: Yes. Writers are whores and will pimp your story out to the highest or lowest bidder. But if you are having an affair and you confide in a writer and ... more » -
#unfaircomparisons
Toward Bethlehem with Joan Didion and Jill Abramson
Under almost any circumstance, it would be highly unfair to compare NYT managing editor for news Jill Abramson's new "Puppy Diaries" column to Joan Didion's masterpiece essay "Slouching Towards Bethlehem." Unless Abramson asks us to. More » -
#journalismism
NY Times Scribe Graphically Exposes Affair-Having Friend
So earlier we were innocently reading the Sunday New York Times, happily taking in your typical "Times writer has lunch with affair-having friend" Magazine article, when things got a little, uh, disgusting. More » -
#menofletters
George W. Bush's Happy Birthday Letter to His Father, Analyzed
Tonight The Daily Beast re-printed an essay George W. Bush wrote ten years ago for P.O.V. magazine to commemorate his father's birthday titled, "The First Son." Just for kicks, we ran it through some of those online writing analyzers. More » -
