archives for Friday 30 January 2004
how much should this really be allowed to bother me?
Friday 30 January 2004 | I like a cookie
I mean, it’s got a really groovy cover and all. Maybe I should focus on that, and not on the fact that the incredibly hot young woman who wrote the forthcoming novel Here Kitty Kitty (Little Brown, May 2004) actually beat the pants off me (oh don’t I wish) at a dumb poetry contest in […]
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please, please, please don’t ever ask…
Friday 30 January 2004 | I like a cookie
…how I came to visit The History of The United States Penny Online.
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erratum
Friday 30 January 2004 | I like a cookie
It wasn’t Ann Padgett; it was Janet Fitch, and I can’t even remember what it is of hers that’s published under the capacious Oprah aegis, only I so disliked it that the comment about the shrine, nestled in the stupid book-club notes in the back (which I always read with vicious interest for their dead-funny […]
“or also brilliant / and reassuring, oprah winfrey”
Friday 30 January 2004 | I like a cookie
Which quotation is from a poem by PLOTUS and former prof of mine Pinsky, believe it or not; sycophantic? Today I passed through Amazon looking for something or other, only to find this:
“Oprah continues to share her love of the classics with her latest Book Club pick, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Nobel Prize winner […]
