Category: Culture
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I Dearly Miss the Smell of Books
I dearly miss the smell of books, the crunch of a sewn binding, and the feel of holding a whole world in my hands. There is a kind of ownership in holding a book which digital technology cannot duplicate.
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50 Shades Of Grey, The Sequel
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The book already has two sequels; 50 Shades Darker and 50 Shades Freed. But as a writer, I feel a compulsive need to offer some creative suggestions for the second film should they decide to stray from the book plot. Or heck, maybe E. L. James will write a fourth book, and…
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50 Shades of Morally Non Grey Area
Happy Valentine’s Day!!! 50 Shades of Grey is out!!! (That was said with seething sarcasm.) Many people have been very vocal about the morality of a movie that glorifies an abusive relationship, so I’m not even going to bother rehashing that. Instead, I’m going to address the typical response to dissenters: “IT’S OK. THEY’RE BOTH…
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This is Why I Don’t Diet
There are so many fad diets going around right now. Note that I say “going around,” as if diets are a strain of the flu. That’s because I believe that diets are a sort of communicable insanity. Here’s how they’re transmitted: A friend tells you about the evils of gluten or dairy or soy and…
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In A Great Victory for Womankind, Sports Illustrated Now Hypersexuallizes Plus Size Women Too
In a great victory for womankind or feminism or whatever, Sports Illustrated is featuring – for the first time ever – a plus size model. Her name is Ashley Graham, and yes, she’s absolutely gorgeous. No argument there. Most people seem super proud that a woman whose shoulder blades don’t protrude out of her back…
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Ferguson Riots: To Build Or To Destroy? (Poem)
I was going through photo albums tonight and found this anonymous poem tucked away on a piece of yellowed paper: I saw them tearing a building down, A gang of men in my home town. With a heave and a ho and a “Yes! Yes!” yell They swung a beam and a side wall fell.
Jenn Greenberg 