Today, I am done with tired, gratuitous references to the appearances of attractive women writers in discussions of any kind about their books. And also, it’s weird that I have to be done with this in 2013. I literally had to double check my calendar last night, in case I was in a…
Yes. This is like the time I showed someone some drawings I’d done and she (yes, she) said, “Oh, when you said you were an artist, I thought you were too pretty to be any good.”
Um, what?
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epea-pteroenta said:
Any scribbling anyone can sit right here by me. I’ll even lend them a pen, if they don’t mind the blotchy ones.
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bushwickreview said:
THANK YOU. that’s pretty much what i want to say to all your posts, but this one i’ve just got to recognize and type it. one more time: THANK YOU.
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Yes. This is like the time I showed someone some drawings I’d done and she (yes, she) said, “Oh, when you said you were...
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janeena said:
I now know what I’m calling my next writing group.
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seemstween said:
YES GURL YES
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Roxane Gay keeping it real. In the same vein, I also thought about this when Susan Boyle became a thing. All the judges...
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