Friday Article Roundup

(These are kinda sorta themed. 10 points if you can guess!)

If the feminine ruled  

This sort of echoes the article I talked about in "My Obsolete Loves" 

Rare photo of Marilyn


This. Is excellent. Read the whole thing. I know it's long.It's not really about Franzen (about whom I have many conflicting feelings). And This Recording isn't where it originally appeared. But they have the good sense to put it up again, which makes me like them more.

Life, obviously, is about more than this. It's not as though anyone thinks that being a good writer makes you a good person. But it helps. (Isn't this perhaps one reason why women, as a whole, are more apt than men to see writing and reading as therapeutic acts? All that private time spent rendering and transforming personal experience on paper is easier to justify if the writer - and, ideally, reader - is healed in the process.) If you're truly talented, then your work becomes your way of doing good in the world; if you're not, it's a self-indulgence, even an embarrassment.

To that end...  http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/n_8970/ 

Have a great weekend, everyone!