OMG, I just cried a little: ‘Hir’ by Alysia Harris & Aysha El Shamayleh
Nothing I could say about this performance would matter by comparison, so I’m just going to ask that you please, please watch. Read the text…
!! Books !!
OMG, how booky: ‘It Gets Better’ in print
After nearly 10,000 video submissions and 30 million views worldwide, the creators of the It Gets Better project have compiled some of its stories into…
OMG Poetry Corner: Mark Doty reads Tiara
For World AIDS Day. (I love this poem.)
OMG, Mary Ann Lives: Armistead Maupin revisits Tales of the City
Wait, there’s a new Tales of the City book out? How did I miss this? After formally retiring the long-running series in 1989, author Armistead…
OMG, She’s Crafty: Amy Sedaris shows Kathie Lee and Hoda how to make castanets
So I was brushing my teeth and doing my elaborate facial cleansing routine with the Today Show on in the other room yesterday and could…
OMG, How Epistolary: Madonna writes a letter
Lady M to photographer Steven Meisel, 1990. (But why no mention of Rosie? Unless she counts as an “athlete?”) [via Boy Culture]
OMG, Jersey She Wrote: Snooki to become a novelist
America’s pint-sized orange sweetheart is writing a book! That’s right: Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi– who revealed in a New York Times profile earlier this summer that…