I think it depends on the culture of the school. If it's a pretty loosey-goosey organization, people are going to be fine with setting their own boundaries.

@NomNom83: I always think she needs to lighten up on the eye makeup. It always looks top-heavy to me, and then her face looks lopsided.

@dkissam: I just saw a pic of her in this week's US Weekly article about the Sookie/Bill wedding — she was with Michael Emerson on some red carpet and her hair was bright red. Lighter than the maroon Arlene hair, but definitely red.

@BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): Did you catch Nate Berkus asking her about Jason Sudiekis on the red carpet? I think he asked something like, "Is Jason your lucky charm?" or something, when clearly they are just having a fling.

I am so heartbroken Connie Britton didn't win. She was interviewed everywhere (the New York Times even did a piece about her dress selection!), so I really thought everyone secretly knew she was going to win.

@Psykid42: Oh man, I just teared up. I'd not seen that before.

@Farren_Randolph: Definitely real name, especially for nonfiction. Gender seems to matter much much less with non-fiction — there's less chance of falling into a "genre" ghetto.

@hfree: I agree with you and I would add that Jodie Picoult and Jennifer Weiner have the "bad" (ha ha) luck of being multi-bestselling authors. When their books first started coming out, the style for book jackets was more toward pastel-sappy-sentinmental and pink-shoes-yay!. Their covers still follow that style now…

@curioushair: I have no love for Nick Hornby, but he's a better writer than Jodi Picoult. I'd compare him to maybe Curtis Sittenfeld. And his last couple of books have not done all that well, anyway. Quality is going to fall off when you're publishing a book a year.

@laureltreedaphne: Ha, I am just finishing One Day now and would have to agree with you. I've enjoyed myself, though.

@lucyjae: Stephen King seems to have transcended all boundaries of genre, quality, and category. I think he's such a pop-cultural icon now that he is his own category, and every media outlet feels forced to cover his every move.

@SarahMC: Very true. And even for quote-unquote chick-lit, the trend for that type of cover has fallen away greatly in the past 3-4 years.

@BoatGirl: Eggars is a gimmicky writer of postmodern literary-esque fiction (because everything the postmodernists do is pastiche anyway, amirite?).

@seejanerum: I don't think anyone is defending the NYTimes here. At least I'm not — I agree with that part of Picoult's argument.

And you know what else? You show me a list of so-called "chick lit" authors (your Nora Robertses to your Marian Keyeses, your Adriana Trigianis to your Emily Giffins), and I will show you a bunch of women who are rolling around in piles of money. (I'm looking right at you, multiple-book-contract having,…

@Norton: I feel the exact same way. I read about a book a week, and I've noticed that most of the novels I've loved in the past year were by men (with the exception of AS Byatt — I read the whole Fredericka Potter series this year and it was amazing). I'm just finishing One Day right now, and I'd say it's my most…

@AllyAllyOxenFree:

@amyreads: But Nicholas Sparks books do not get reviewed in the New York Times, either.

Honestly, I could care less about who gets reviewed because I'm so happy people are reading any books of any kind. I'm a woman, and it does pain me that my boyfriend (who has read every single book written by Foster Wallace and David Mitchell) couldn't come up with a single female-authored novel he's ever read.

Maybe I'm paranoid, but after the incident explained below, I'm now suspicious of extreme "unselfishness."