He supposedly started out as some rich guy’s kept boy back in the day. Not that there is anything wrong with being a hooker.

No one buys those anymore.

No wonder Grantland begat a Cult of SporrsGuy. He’s their Ideal: only child of a school administrator, so, never wanted for anything, but, still, his parents divorcing changed everything.

Well, the personal essay is supposed to be ... you know ... personal.

It’s opposite writing. Great writing tells you what happens and lets you infer how people feel. These examples tell you exactly how you should feel and forces you to guess what happened. The writers know they’re only supposed to do one of the two things but they keep guessing incorrectly.

This here bad boy—never 4get!

Man, Hemingway got weird near the end.

I spent the last few weeks thinking of a tree that we used to have in the backyard of our old house. All those hours I spent under that tree looking up as the sunlight dripped like honey through the leaves. When the thin cold wire of time wasn’t pressing pushing tight against my neck. There was time back then. There’s…

Counterpoint: all personal essays suck. Except The Things They Carried, which was as much quasi-fiction memoir as it was a personal account.

I do not believe that this is a uniquely male thing. As far as I can tell, this is a new-school “journalism” thing, and I’ve started to read, and then stopped reading just as many articles from female authors as male authors. (Or at least I think they were, because sometimes I don’t go back and double check who wrote…

The questions aren’t designed just to harass her. They were trying to get an admission to justify further exploration of her knowledge of what happened — concrete admission of Cosby’s guilt. Camille is his business manager and people have said her tough, shrewd, and that she’s rough to deal with when it comes to…

I think the question about drugs is relevant, don’t you?

She opened the door when she claimed the women were willing participants who threw themselves at Cosby. She’s also a business partner and manager, and she probably thought when this started that it would be (once again) swept under the rug. Don’t kid yourself, she’s in it up to her neck.

I don’t know whether or not I agree with this. Obviously Bill is human garbage, but I’m not sold on Camille.

She’s a piece of shit. The woman stood by while her husband ruined the lives of an endless stream of his victims. Special place in hell for her.

Oh come on. His politics, his stances, his entire life condemns this kind of bullshit. It should be more than obvious that this is counter to everything he stands for.

Does it honestly not bother you that Bernie supporters are sending death threats to a woman who, as far as I can tell, was just doing her job? I get wanting to have positive coverage of your preferred candidate, but any coverage of the event that leaves out the booing and death threats is still pretty slanted - it’s…

This. I have unfollowed and unfriended more Bernie zealots than Trump supporters at this point. I voted Bernie and have been chewed out by his supporters for being a Hillary shill this entire time. The fact that I could ever criticize Bernie is sacrilegious. I have experienced the Bernie Bro, first hand and many…

I mean, you fuck one goat and they call you a goat fucker.

“Who are you talking to?” and older woman’s voice shouted worriedly from the background.