Dearest Plumplings, here it is Tuesday the Eenth again and, after considerable rumination, I have decided that in lieu of composing an entirely fresh essay for you all this month I shall bring forth to you something which I wrote for another purpose, namely, teaching my Chubbelinas at Miss Hanne’s Academy for Wayward Girls, but [...]
One of the ways I have been staving off cabin fever during this abominable heat wave has been by engaging in acts of Urban Femme Renewal. This is a category in which I put all the various self-care and beauty rituals that I am usually too busy to do on anything like a regular basis, [...]
As I mentioned yesterday, with this latest evil twist of the heatwave knife, we’ve gone from “feverish orangutan’s armpit” straight to “Satan’s malarial jockstrap.” I do hope you’re all staying cool. I’m in heatwave bunker aestivation mode. Just me, a lot of iced tea, BC powders for the inevitable heat-related headachiness, and research reading. Not [...]
Late Sunday night we lost our 18-year-old Elder Statescat, Mrs. Flora Calabash. She was an exemplary cat and she died in our arms. It may be a few days before things get back to normal around here. Thanks for your patience.
Having a bit of writerly bardo. Bardo, the Tibetan Buddhists say, is the bit of time between one incarnation and the next, the time when one’s soul is not tied to any particular existence. For my purposes, it’s the time between when I am actively writing one book and the next. Technically I’m not so [...]
Greetings to all of you visiting from Lifehacker and BoingBoing! Just FYI, what I do mostly isn’t pitting cherries with a hairpin. It’s writing books about things like the history of virginity. And other things having to do with sex and bodies. Sometimes I’m also a lecturer and/or public speaker. You can find out more [...]
If you’re in Boston/Cambridge tonight and have nothing better to do than listen to me, c’mon over to the Harvard campus — the Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street. I’ll be giving a talk at 7:30 with the title of “Virgins and Other Indefinite Articles: Thinking Historically about Sexuality, Definition, and Experience.” Should be a good [...]
Edited to add: Apparently this was an April Fool’s joke. A pity, since I think it’s a phenomenally good idea and I would, in point of fact, order one. Dammit, Atomic! I wanted an indie e-reader!! It’s not available quite yet. But you need this. Atomic Books’s very own e-reader. The Neutron. Totally awesome [...]