Brilliantly Uncomfortable Moments in Social Media
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, indeed. You now know more than you ever needed to about celebrated novelist Michael Chabon.
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They summer in the colonies, the writers of New York, scattering forth to the hills as the days grow more sultry: to Yaddo, to MacDowell, to Millay and Ledig House! They go to work, of course, to work uninterruptedly and produce literary classics, and then, after all that exhaustive working, to play Ping-Pong and drink. Read More
Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon are working on a musical about McSweeney's non-profit 826 Valencia's Superhero Supply Store in Park Slope. It's true, Ms. Waldman told us! It will be called The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company. Michael Mayer, of American Idiot and Spring Awakening will direct; Peter Lerman, a young up-and-coming musical talent, will compose; Read More
Katie Roiphe better watch her step. Ayelet Waldman does not take even indirect criticism lightly when it involves her husband (you know, the amazing writer and lover, Michael Chabon).
As part of the new tradition of referencing famous husbands through twitter, Ms. Waldman is using the medium to air her grievances against Ms. Roiphe.
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Today on Salon, Sarah Bird pens a humor piece in which she wishes her son were gay.
With palpable yearning, Ms. Bird writes:
How could I not dream of having a son who cared deeply about all the right things: fashion, musical theater, interior décor? But mostly a son who cared deeply about the most Read More
The name Ayelet, as in Ayelet Waldman, has become something of an epithet on the fabulously acerbic, anonymous, Gotham-centric Internet chat board Urbanbaby.com. “But who is Ayelet?” some clueless UB neophyte will occasionally wander in and wonder. “Self-obsessed navel-gazer who writes incredibly dull articles for Salon about her tedious life,” responded one poster recently. “She Read More
