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Happy Purim, bubbelehs!
It's Purim! Here is an essay about BIBLICAL EXEGESIS. Less fancy-pansedly, it is about whether Queen Vashti possessed early feminist [...]
I’m fine, how are you
Happy 80th birthday, Judy Blume! Let us not allow our collective obsession with Forever distract us from what makes her [...]
Patrick Stewart, my dad, and the New Haven pizza conundrum
Not long ago, you may have heard, Sir Patrick Stewart crowned the pies at Frank Pepe's Pizzeria Napoletana in New [...]
In byline news
The enduring relevance of Broadcast News (from a “journalism is doooooomed” perspective and a #metoo perspective). I will be so [...]
Stuff I wrote
Farewell to Fred Bass, man of The Strand. (Plus: My life in Strand moments.) What Pixar's Coco can teach us [...]
A vintage “pseudo-womanist boys” rant
On Twitter, writer Meg Nesterov reminded me via her Instagram that I wrote this in Sassy in 1994. It seems....relevant. I [...]