via www.nytimes.com NYTimes Magazine cover story today about a cuckolded husband named Mike, who was aggrieved to learn that he'd been paying child support for years for a daughter who was not biologically his. He loves her dearly, but he doesn't.

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I've been looking forward to seeing the new film Precious for over a year now. It's adapted from one of my favorite novels, Push, by Sapphire, a woman who has a special place in my heart— she's a poet I published in 1989 in On Our Backs,...

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"Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you." —Mae West I am an ardent quotations collector— I collect my favorites on slips of paper, write them on my hand, hoard hundreds on my hard drive. I...

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I can't be the only one to make the connection. For those of us who who are devoted to the American tele-novella Mad Men, the recent psycho-shooting at Ft. Hood had an eerie plot echo. (Spoilers ahead). In Mad Men, which takes place in New York of...
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via www.youtube.com Tom Waits on "Fernwood 2Night," circa 1977. One day I hope to use every single one of Tom's lines that he cuts loose in this after-piano interview. I will start tonight! Have a very spooky little evening...

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