A morning smile

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Glee

Mike Barthel has an excellent essay up about the promise of Glee, a new show which they cruelly piloted last week but won’t be showing until fall.
“…So much of the culture of the 00s was and is tied up with the particular kind of economic prosperity that we can now mark as part of the [...]

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This time last year…

 
Another spring, another city. In 2007, it was Cambridge, Massachusetts; 2008, Montreal, Quebec, and now, despite years of protest and resistance, I’m spending 2009 in London, England. Maybe it was good I held out so long, because it meant I travelled far, and met all kinds of people, but I’ve been feeling the desire to nest more [...]

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The c-word

So far, I think I’ve managed to avoid a diatribe about critical perspectives on female-centric literature, aka, the chick-lit wars. Basically, as a) a woman, who b) reads, and c) writes what is generally thought of as chick-lit, it’s hard not for me to start fuming when people make sweeping, ill-informed, hugely derogatory statements about [...]

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A space/time anomaly

Star Trek at the IMAX: the only time that the line for the men’s bathroom will be five times as long as the women’s.

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New site, cover, general awesomeness.

Today is very exciting, because it’s the day my shiny new website goes live. No, not Sophomore Switch (although go check it out!), but my Abby McDonald author homepage. See! Here! And, drumroll, it also showcases the UK cover for SophSwitch too, aka, Life Swap. It was a lot of fun coming up with a [...]

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Properly Epic

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