Archive for June, 2008


Rebutting The New Yorker’s most famous cartoon

  NB to professors searching for a colleague’s name + “pussy”: If you are going to troll the Internet for images of or information about someone’s genitals, you might want to do it from someplace other than the university where you work. Especially when your last name and first initial are embedded in your IP address. And even more especially . . .

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Lizzie Skurnick’s Fine Lines and salade nicoise

Lizzie Skurnick, poet, YA novelist, critic, and longtime (in blog years) friend to MaudNewton.com, will be publishing a book based on her marvelous Fine Lines, a weekly Jezebel column in which she takes “a sentimental, sometimes-critical, far more wrinkled look at the children’s and YA books” she loved in her youth. I’ve been sitting on the news since she told . . .

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