Word: maling
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...surprised and pleased - like running into a dear friend at a deadly dull cocktail party - to see Edward P. Jones's The Known World, which won the Pulitzer in 2004, make an appearance, but otherwise it's a very staid, predictable, old, white (except for Morrison and Jones), and male (except for Morrison and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping) bunch. No surprise extra-canonical incursions. (No William Gibson? No Watchmen...
...those well-educated, well-off women fortunate enough to have a choice between a family and a career, a stagnant male-dominated world still drives over 40 percent of professional female graduates back into their kitchens, unable to reconcile their intellectual and familial goals...
...this year’s Papadopoulos Lecture, coordinated by BGLTSA in memory of Nicholas Papadopoulos, a graduate of Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) who died of complications due to AIDS in 1994. Keisling, a 46-year-old GSAS graduate who identified as a male while attending Harvard, and who rallied in support of Harvard’s policy change last month, won the “BGLTS Person of the Year Award” at last night’s event. “So much spectacular stuff is going...
...must die. (The novel's title comes from a Christian morality play about a visit from Death.) But Roth's protagonist rejects the "hocus-pocus" of God and Heaven. If he were to write his autobiography, he thinks, "he'd call it The Life and Death of a Male Body." For this Everyman, there is only life and the "deadening depersonalization" of illness, which negates the self...
...Another story where somebody finds something in their food: At a T.G.I. Friday's in Indiana, a male customer finds a human finger in his hamburger, and the management was terribly, terribly apologetic. They said, 'Oh, my God, that's supposed to be in the chili!'" --DAVID LETTERMAN...