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Greetings from the Bear-Infested Asheville Satellite Office
by Carrie Frye Once upon a time (last December), we went out looking for a managing editor for this website, and we met a ton of amazing people. Long story short: we now want you to meet Carrie Frye,...
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The Weekend Odyssey of Wisconsin's Wandering Democrats
by Carrie Frye Tell me, Muse, of the men and women of many ways, who were driven far journeys, after they had fled Madison's shining Capitol. Hard was their exile amid the labyrinth toll roads of...
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111 Male Characters Of British Literature, In Order Of Bangability
by Carrie Frye 111. Frankenstein's Monster (Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus) 110. Uriah Heep (David Copperfield) 109. Casaubon (Middlemarch) 108. Bradley Headstone (Our Mutual Friend) 107....
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46 Things to Read and See for David Foster Wallace's 50th Birthday
by Carrie Frye Today would have been David Foster Wallace's 50th birthday, and if you'd like to mark it, here are some things that might interest you to read (or watch) and revisit. The list isn't...
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The Epic Live-Tweeting Of Last Night's Park Slope Coop Meeting
by Carrie Frye Last night Park Slope Food Coop held its monthly members meeting. At 7:26 p.m., senior Reuters Opinion editor Chadwick Matlin began live-tweeting the proceedings; two hours and 14...
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The Bodybuilder's Guide To Getting Rid Of "Computer Back"
by Carrie Frye Do you suffer Computer Back? I do. Mine is caused by the terrible habit of hunching over the laptop while also curling my legs under the chair in a sort of corkscrewed position that is...
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Look Back in Eyeliner: Three Girls at a Duran Duran Sleepover in 1984
by Carrie Frye Today is Nick Rhodes' 50th birthday. He's the youngest member of Duran Duran, so they, the pretty mascara-ed wild-boy new romantics, are all safely embarked on their 50s now. They...
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11 Liz Taylor Things It Was Fun To Watch & Read While "Liz And Dick" Was On
by Carrie Frye 1. Elizabeth Taylor as Helen Burns in the 1943 version of Jane Eyre. The movie, which had Orson Wells as Mr. Rochester and Joan Fontaine as Jane Eyre, was made when Taylor was 11. It...
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On Advice To Kids
by Carrie Frye When my friends started having children, as much as I thought about what role I'd play in their kids' lives, it was as the sort of friend of the family who, when you're teetering...
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Victoria Grayson's Unfortunate History As A Hamptons Hostess, In...
by Carrie Frye • Last night's Charity Wine Auction: Two guests kidnapped from elevator as they're leaving the party. • Liberty Project benefit dinner: Wife of a Supreme Court nominee reveals to...
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How To Give Birth To A Rabbit
by Carrie Frye Mary Toft was 23 when she gave birth to her first rabbit. Other rabbits—six, seven, eight of them—followed. It was 1726. Toft lived in Godalming, a small rural town in Surrey; news of...
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My Attempt To Make Elderflower Cordial
by Carrie Frye A series about foods we miss and our quests to recreate them. A few years ago, on a trip to Edinburgh, I had an elderflower drink that I keep thinking about. I don't remember what it...
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How To Be A Monster: Life Lessons From Lord Byron
by Carrie Frye In 1816, a young doctor named John Polidori was offered the position as traveling physician to George Gordon, Lord Byron. Polidori was saturnine, caustic, ambitious, well-educated and...
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How To Be Old: Two Women, Their Husbands, Their Cats, Their Alchemy
by Carrie Frye "Beauty is a responsibility like anything else, beautiful women have special lives like prime ministers but I don't want that." The writer and painter Leonora Carrington was 33 and a...
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Marvelous Spinster Barbara Pym At 100
by Carrie Frye A note in Barbara Pym's diary instructs: "Read some of Jane Austen's last chapters and find out how she manages all the loose ends." Next entry, a fairly typical one: "The Riviera Cafe,...
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Let Us Go Then
by Carrie Frye This begins the seven-episode Kindle Serial "An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having: Travel Stories From The Hairpin." (Episode Two, by Maria Bustillos, is excerpted here.) I....
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How To Get Your Lion Back When It Runs Away: Life Lessons From Tippi Hedren
Tippi Hedren and Melanie Griffith on the set of Roar. Of course you know Tippi Hedren from The Birds. Less likely is that you’ve seen another movie she was in called Roar. It came out in 1981 and...
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The Plath Resolution
For the past year and a half I’ve been going to yoga every Friday morning. Before this I’d done maybe a handful of classes and every one had left me in a barbed, mutinous mood. It was uncomfortable!...
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