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Funny Women #2: Melissa Broder, Peach Schnapps and a Basement
For many women, getting people to laugh means getting people to laugh at them. It’s not all masochism. By positioning yourself lower than your reader—which can be accomplished by strolling onto the page wearing…
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“Mad Men” Update: The Hebrew Blessing [by David Lehman]
Ben Feldman as Michael Ginsberg On Mad Men last evening, the new Jewish copywriter comes home, bringing groceries (like farmer's cheese, oy vay), and there's his Papa, tall, with a thick accent, a refugee…
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NaPoWriMo Poems Day #2
Get this: they're up to 575 participating sites over at NaPoWriMo! Today's prompt: Write a poem inspired by the song that was #1 on the day that you were born." Make a mine a…
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Funny Women #1: The Amy Lawless Show
Earlier this year, Angelo Nikolopoulos, curator of the White Swallow reading series at the Cornelia Street Café, organized a reading of funny women writers which included non-fiction writer Marion Wren, the poet Amy Lawless,…
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NaPoWriMo Poem #1: “Metaphor”
A poem is a weather-tested craft,whose worthiness is ultimately found by how it sails the oceanic rift between assaulting waves that never end and utter stillness when the winds are lost, or it's a…
