No this bit was creepy and unnecessary:
"As I slip an apron over her mane of chocolate-brown hair, for which
Pantene has paid her millions, and tie it around her tiny waist, I
wonder whether her legions have felt for years the same sharp pang of
protectiveness that I’m feeling at present."
Why ask a successful woman…

Don't be cynical, I think we all know that most people are at their most genuine when spending time pretending to be down to earth while being interviewed by some hack from an overpriced magazine ;-)

Heh, me too.

"I used to live with a guy who wrote shit like this. One of my very close female friends made the mistake of sleeping with him, and he persistently emotionally bullied her for about 6 months because she didn't want to date him. He basically said that he wanted to protect her, and he was ready to be a "real man" to…

Personally I find that a bit creepy. Also presumably Ms Gomez doesn't need protecting and if she did she probably has security she pays for that ;-) But that's why I don't buy these magazines or read them.

Reading the samples, the interview/feature comes across to me as if Haskell either a) is a frustrated novelist/fiction writer or b) wasn't really interested in his interview subject beyind how she looks and makes him feel. Or maybe he just didn't do much research that would have enabled him to ask her some interesting…

I miss my most extreme Marxist friend and how she was always trying to persuade me that my mild middle of the road political beliefs were a betrayal of my working class heritage :-) (I am entirely serious both about the friend, our respective views and missing her. She came off as really quiet and sensible but was…

Maybe the smart play is to find ways to bring the cost down?

I used to get moved into other groups on my various courses to condense my schedule into four and once three days rather than having one class every day (in the UK you tend to have a very light classload if you study something like English Lit).

It's interesting to wonder if they would be viewed with the suspicion we now view people who go and fight in Syria with.

"Where it might lose readers is in its structure. The novel, at times, reads more experimentally than most modern American fiction."

I miss using that sweet CRT monitor.

Let the Matrix be.

I saw it at the cinema because a friend picked it and just found it creepy and depressing.

SAME!*

Pornhub needs to have that same talk on needs and wants that I got over and over when I was younger.

We Need to Take This Slower, Pornhub.

Never try and brew tea in a river.

Sean O'Neal really ought to be a snarky English teacher for high schoolers/first year university students. Those biting remarks could make the laziest student study……

Am I right in thinking Pitchfork is owned by a giant company of some kind though? Some of the reviews I've read there crossed over into needing some editing to be honest.