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 . . .
Using astronomical clues, researchers date Odysseus’ slaughter of his wife’s suitors, but still don’t know who wrote the story or if it really happened.
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 . . .
My favorite thing about Ellen Sussman’s Dirty Words is what it says about our culture that “commitment” appears on the cover.
Elena Ferrante’s blistering The Days of Abandonment has me dying to read the complete works of this mysterious — and furious — Italian author.