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Comment on Help With a Christening by Millicent

Millicent — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:39:53 +0000

I think this is silly!

Comment on The Art of The Comment by American Writers « Millicent and Carla Fran

American Writers « Millicent and Carla Fran — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:24:47 +0000

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Comment on Why Women Don’t Make Top Ten Lists: Prose on Prose by Millicent

Millicent — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:49:41 +0000

Hi Ms B U-S,

Iraq. What a sad metonym. Yeah, the love of the passive position seems key, doesn’t it? I haven’t read that Updike novel, possessing, as Mailer puts it, “the twisted tongue of a soured taste,” but so much about that particular brand of male novelist does seem intimately (ahem) bound up (yikes) with balls and the possession thereof. The novel has stalled, so I am questing for my novelistic testicles. Sacking up!

Comment on Why Women Don’t Make Top Ten Lists: Prose on Prose by Ms B U-S

Ms B U-S — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:11:24 +0000

I love this post so much. In Mary Gaitskill’s newest book she seems on to her rep as sex-anti-christ and branches out; there’s a story about Iraq. And then there’s the Michael Krasny-Lorrie Moore moment where she’s talking about the background of the novel and he says, knowingly, “Women?” and she answers, “Iraq.” Though both women writers deal with Iraq (which I’m using metonymically for “the real world of real manly issues”) through the consciousness of a female character about whom the reader wants to know everything, rather than pronouncing statements about the world, which may be a crucial difference and the real diff between the Gaitskill/ Mailer comments– Mailer “loves the passive position” about which, EVERYONE KNOWS, and then attempts to be Gaitskill-brilliant, which is precisely precluded by the universality of the claim.
This post gave me an ontological sigh of relief to see in print. Goo’luck with the novel!!

Comment on Hello Start! I Would Like Instant Discipline Now, Thanks. by Millicent

Millicent — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:46:50 +0000

Nothing, I am ashamed to say. Well…. bakery noises?

Comment on Hello Start! I Would Like Instant Discipline Now, Thanks. by Carla Fran

Carla Fran — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:36:25 +0000

Soundtrack, day 1: Yoshimi Battles the Robots.
Yours?

Comment on Introducing The Sterling Institute Men’s Weekend by Hank

Hank — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:07:13 +0000

The men’s groups I participated in were all about just being ourselves with no judgements of each other. Lots of fun. No secret mantras or anything. And we cleaned up after ourselves, too. Let our gathering spots as pristine as we found ‘em.

Comment on Riding in Airplanes #2: On With the Story (And Full of Hot Air) by Millicent

Millicent — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:58:30 +0000

Ms. B U-S! Thanks, and thanks for the recommendation! Did you see that she edited this year’s Best American Short Stories?!

Comment on Riding in Airplanes #2: On With the Story (And Full of Hot Air) by Ms B U-S

Ms B U-S — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:08:42 +0000

You HAVE to read Mary Gaitskill’s Girl on a Plane. Love the post, love your record of the lady’s story

Comment on The Eyes Have It by The Personal and the Political « Millicent and Carla Fran

The Personal and the Political « Millicent and Carla Fran — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:50:21 +0000

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