I grrr,

I had an attempted break in a few weeks ago. They rang my doorbell in the middle of the night. At the same time, another guy was cutting into the screen porch out back. When I turned on the lights, they took off. The person at the front door was clearly checking to see if anyone was home before actually breaking in.…

"God has a plan before all of us."

That is one of the grossest misrepresentation of fact I've seen in a Jezebel headline and then the content takes it a step further.

I couldn't read the whole piece, but what was available to someone without a New Yorker subscription didn't seem that sexist. And it certainly wasn't solely about her being unattractive. I say this as someone who doesn't like Franzen either. I assume his comment was a personal dig at Bruni rather than a claim that…

Okay so I'm not all that familiar with Jonathan Franzen's work, but all I got from his letter to the editor is that he thinks sexism in the New York theater scene is rampant and deserves more attention. I have to say that I agree with him on that. If there's some backstory or history of him being an asshole, that's…

That's not really what he said though. He said things are getting better in the lit world and that its seeing changes. Then as an entirely separate thought, he mentioned that Frank Bruni said fuck all about theater. Theater's sexism problem is pretty intense. It's much much much easier to get a novel published as a…

"Hoda," said Hoda.