She’s also *fabulous* in PEEP SHOW.

I know this is going to sound crazy, but we could . . . not let the box of rats ruin our lives.

Thank you, thank you. Is there a message function on this site? I’ve lurked from the very beginning of Gawker but rarely comment.

I know I’m commenting very late on this, but someone I love just received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder after a year I can’t believe we survived. I’ve read a lot, talked to doctors and therapists, we’re both trying as hard as we can. The calm tone of your comment here is a comfort somehow, and makes me think we…

“When is she going to start yelling at me?” made me snort.

Hey! Another Quaker!

Tell us more about this.

I have a hard time explaining this to people who didn’t grow up the way I did. I’m from a poor, rural farm community and I didn’t meet anyone who exercised on purpose until I was 17 (and had moved to a small city). Athletics were for high school students, and after that everyone worked so hard physically they…

It also has a beautiful narrative arc. The reveal about what was going on between mother and daughter (at depth) is perfectly timed, and was a real surprise to me the first time I saw the film. It couldn’t have been written better as fiction.

If you haven’t seen the episode of Girls where Hannah tries to confront an abusive male writer, you should. It’s brilliant and truly shocked me. I turned to my mate afterward and said, “Holy shit,” and then had to think about it for the rest of the evening.

The Art of Memoir is so bloody good. I teach from it every year. I’ve probably read 90% of the books about writing, how to write, the writer’s life, and hers is the most generous by far. She gives away — just hands it right over — everything she’s learned over the years and everything she teaches in her seminar at…

King is also a lowkey philanthropist, a great father, supportive of (and faithful to) his wife, and all of his novels — going all the way back to Carrie — are concerned with the condition of women. Over and over they are the strongest characters, the ones who save everything. I’m not saying he’s always gotten it…

You are blessed Former Catholic child, to have been spared the blood-curdling horror that was Freedom, a book so terrible it made me angry 4,784 times. (p.s. I too am a former Hoosier. It never goes away, that one.)

I’m also a relatively well-known author, and there’s a specific problem for us because our readers believe they know us — they know the real us — and if we only knew the real them, we’d be best friends or get married of whatever. I’ve had a number of problem fans, but the worst was a man who emailed repeatedly, sent…

This is a perfect example of what she meant, yes. Couples make all kinds of accommodations, and there are divorces that are (almost) entirely amicable, but the kids, the in-laws, the fear of a pattern being repeated . . . OY VEY.

She would want me to share; there are reasons for that, too.

When I was little my mom used to remind me, “There are reasons for most of the rules,” and because I took a sort of religious position of not believing in any rules whatsoever she’d offer examples. The one I remember best is, “Married people shouldn’t cheat — not because of laws or the state or the church, but because…

My favorite ever Onion headline:

In that movie he’s the absolute model of the gorgeous, hot, totally fucked-up genius that caused a generation of women to be drawn to men like him, and I salute him, particularly when he’s shirtless or singing Crippled Crow.