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Wolcott on Couric: “No one over the age of 30 should be resorting to all those exclamation marks and capital letters like some juiced-up Crackberry addict.” (Via.)

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I have it on good authority that Shalom Auslander appears on This American Life this weekend. (If you missed “The Blessing Bee” last year, listen now.)

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Fearless self- publishing pioneer Leslie Harpold has passed on.

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“As if the only thing a chick writer has to offer is why, after her fortieth degrading blowjob in the bathroom at CBGB, she had, ‘like, a revelation.’” (Thanks, #1. And see, e.g.)

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Production is underway on the film version of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.

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