Almost no one gets into sex work for personal fulfillment — it's a job with low barriers to entry that pays better than most other jobs accessible to people without much education.

What I enjoy most is the relationships between the parents and the children. I have a son in the throes of puberty and was dying during the episode about The Talk. My son walks around the house naked as the day he was born and - truly - I was having a hard time impressing the impropriety on him. So, I told him if I…

I keep maintaining that they'll miss Andrea the most of anyone in the group. She's like a canary in a freakin' coalmine for bad guys. They could have sent her into Terminus first. If she went, "hey, that skinny guy is kinda hot....and 'Gareth'... kinda a sexy, artistic name" they could have all just turned around…

This is truly awesome, but somehow it makes me all the more disappointed by her inability to get those pliers off the goddamn floor.

"He shouldn't 'a done it. It was stupid, but it wasn't 10-year-old boys."

Oh thank goodness he didn't see underage boys because that would make him one of the GAYZ, and then you wouldn't have been able to even be in the same room with him without getting the heebie jeebies, ammirite? And then of course he would deserve prosecution because GAY!

"We have prisons now filled with guys my age. Sixty-year-old white men in prison who've never harmed anybody,

Did the interviewer mistake him for Stephen Collins?

I know someone (not voluntarily mind you) who was recently caught for exactly this. He said every. single. thing. Grisham did. It was spooky.

Meh - I'm slightly older than this generation (call me a very young gen-Xer) I won a grand prize ribbon at the county fair for my mad nightshirt sewing skills back in the day. I'm not a seamstress by any measure, but I can sew a button, tack-up a hem, I own a basic sewing machine that I know how to use.

When I was studying History as part of my double major with English Literature, I was once told by my tutor that my writing was too "flowery". Concerned and puzzled, I questioned him on this, asking what in particular was wrong; did he think it was too like an English Literature critique style?

I've always called it the Orlando effect, myself.

Is there a name for that effect? "Loved it! > Oh wait, you're a woman? > Hated it"

This really makes me appreciate the tightrope that Barbara Tuchman, Carolly Erickson, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Margaret MacMillan must have had to walk to be such respected historians and writers of narrative nonfiction. I am so glad my dad got me into them. And I look forward to reading Abbott's book, and passing…

Most guys are so super awesome. When I give talks, at least 2/3 of the audience is men and they're right into the presentations. But there's always that one asshole who emails me or comes up afterwards with the "where did you get this material? I don't remember reading anything about the food served at Viking markets"…

Still, thinking I might have something to learn about proper nonfiction scholarship, I picked up Yardley's biography of the writer Frederick Exley—and was shocked to discover that because he wanted to write "a story instead of a study" (emphasis his), he provided not one endnote, which he dismissed as "clutter."…

I've written non-fiction history and I can tell you that, yup, I have had men demand primary documentation. Which my reply is, look at the back of the fucking book. THere's 6 pages. If you need more, email me and I'll give you everything I read. There's over 200 books on the list. I recommend starting with the thin…

"Hell Motherfucker Yeah" (subtitle: I'd Read That Shit) sounds like an excellent name for a women's mag.

"Women's magazine?" If a regular "women's magazine" had pure espionage, tales of disguise, seduction, and secretly radical social justice, hell motherfucker yeah I'd read that shit.