It's so interesting to me what a variety of opinions Smith sparks. I found her to be blah and weirdly Dickens-like in White Teeth but On Beauty has become my standard sick-in-bed book. I must have read it 5-6 times. A friend of mine loves Autograph Man but I couldn't even get it started. I can't say that…

If I lie on my Facebook, my sisters call me out publicly and immediately.

Ohhh, did Lisa Loeb finally find a mate? (or a surrogate)?

@curiousgeorgiana: I appreciate your viewpoint on this! I am tremendously annoyed with the condescending viewpoints that have emerged in Rihanna + Chris Brown situation.

See, this catalog just makes the teary creative writing major in me dream up short stories of sad grannies paying in installments and only leaving their little apartments once a year, in their silly red suits...

I'm an artist and my boyfriend's a programmer. We win commeasurate bread. Our sense of how to complete different household tasks may as well be dictated from different tribes of aliens, neither one particularly "more feminine."

I don't understand the bit about Courtney Semel. The article actually says she and Lindsay, um, didn't date? Is Jez trying to argue that they did? Or just that they banged? Confused.

He's pretty cute in the photo [media.commercialappeal.com]

I saw Zsa Zsa on TV the other day and all this hoo-ha about her taxes. She was 92 and honestly, I felt bad for her.

I am so excited that Diddy is finally going to let Tupac back out to attend his bday party as "special musical guest." #victoriabeckham

And Kanye's insensitivity has been usurped. #mileycyrus

@Lymed: You all should reread The Edible Woman. It was written in the 50s, for Crissakes. It's one of my favorite feminist novels. #margaretatwood

I have mixed feelings about this. Danticat and Diaz share a literary agent, Nicole Aragi, who is known for exploiting her writers' personal histories as a marketing tool. These are two very talented writers, but they've both had very carefully crafted personae. It's a big question mark to me as to whether these…

As someone who changes her Facebook profile pic with the frequency of a 14-year-old, I have to say...if I'm having a bad body image day but capture my boobs looking nice, I am not past posting that photo. And LA Times: showing your cleavage next to a yoga book is hardly "exposing your cup size" although I did read…

As someone who changes her Facebook profile pic with the frequency of a 14-year-old, I have to say...if I'm having a bad body image day but capture my boobs looking nice, I am not past posting that photo. And LA Times: showing your cleavage next to a yoga book is hardly "exposing your cup size" although I did read…

@stacyinbean: Bleaching the parts of the couch once a month does not qualify as "awesome" for me. Clearly my maturity level is still at "free couch by the roadside." #shabbychic

I love how Star has become so Heartstrong Family of late...

@JuliaStepchild: Speak for yourself, I prefer Ms. Jones!

Hey baby, I hear ya. When I was knee-high to a Miley Cyrus, I had a painful, painful break-up with diaryland.com

Whenever Obama's ready to appoint the first debt-ridden Creative Writing BFA pothead as an ambassador...hey, I know someone.