HBO’S Girls is back, in all its jaw-clenchingly uncomfortable glory! (Did anyone else crumple into a fetal ball during Marnie’s jazz brunch performance?) While the show is wildly, wonderfully divisive for a half-hour comedy, I think we fans can agree on one thing: why doesn’t it last a full hour? When 30 minutes of Hannah and the gang just […]
I took Roxane Gay’s collection of essays, Bad Feminist, to a nail salon and read it while getting a pedicure. Though she confesses in an epilogue that her favorite color is pink, I went with a sparkly, jewel-red shade called “Scarlett O’Hara,” because O’Hara is a character made for Gay: high-femme, ambitious, no-nonsense, and yet gloriously messed […]
Nora Ephron wrote her truth. She shared the daily horrors and joys of being a particular type of woman (opinionated, intelligent, neurotic, wanting her pie heated and her ice cream separate, you get it) long before it was the thing to do. And Ephron nailed it in such a smart, funny way that people actually […]