As each month passes, my kind becomes increasingly obsolete, a species on the verge of extinction. Our numbers dwindle, slowly at first and then more…
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Three years ago I dated an ambitious young train wreck who, along with whispering creepy nothings into my ear into the wee hours of the…
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We’re sitting at the bar talking about Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen brother’s latest movie, nominated at last night’s Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture…
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The following is a too-personal account of Monday night’s premiere of GIRLS and the minutia leading up to it, as told by a real writer…
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By the grace of the travel gods I have been upgraded to business class and am currently sitting next to a successful art director wearing…
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Don’t have resolutions. Have goals. A resolution infers you are doing something wrong. It infers regret, remorse for past behaviors you cannot change if you…
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Four years ago, a friend of mine was going through relationship troubles with her then-boyfriend. Struggling with the idea of letting go of a person…
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“Let’s just call it as it is,” my friend says to me. “He’s the married guy.” We’ve just spent the last hour talking about a…
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I keep waiting for the tears to come. Computer in lap, radiating my ovaries so that I one day produce children with three legs, I…
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The night is going bad. Appallingly bad. More bad than any bad interaction I have ever had with another human being over the course of…
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When my brother was in the second grade, his teacher pulled my mom in for an afterschool meeting to discuss something of exceeding import: his…
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“Are you a model?” A man in shlumpy jeans and a fedora stands near a configuration of chairs in the lobby of my hotel, where…
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