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...Ayelet Waldman's book Bad Mother seems kind of like a gender reversal of your book: she boasted that she loves her husband more than her children and wants to have a career. And she was pilloried for this. Is there a double standard there? Of course. There is no question that it is easier to outrage people by celebrating one's bad motherhood than celebrating one's bad fatherhood. People cut men more slack. Ayelet is writing a much more controversial book than I ever could unless I said something like, "I intend to kill my children." (Read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Lewis on Father's Day | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

...Your dedication to your children reads, "If you don't want to see it in print, don't do it." Is that a threat? Have you talked about doing another book? Oh no, no, no. I'm done. I was writing about a period of their lives of which they have no memory. This book is like a little document that fills in a gap in their lives that they would otherwise know nothing about. The two that can read have read it - it's like they're reading about Martians; they don't [remember] any of the stuff they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Lewis on Father's Day | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

...them read the whole book with the bad words included? Well, since they said the bad words, it seemed pointless to not let them read them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Lewis on Father's Day | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

...stuck at square one. As the 40th anniversary of Stonewall approaches, the question that Alan Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa ask in their 2007 book about evolutionary psychology, Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters, has never been more relevant: Will "the liberation of homosexuals, which allows them to come out of the closet and not pretend to be straight" actually turn out to "contribute to the end of homosexuality?" We may not know for a thousand years, but it's a great question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Some Animals (and People) Are Gay | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

Block, Francesca Lia • burning - yes, actual setting fire to - of latest book by is urged by group of Christian extremists in Wisconsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

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