All Stories published by The Hairpin on August 23, 2011

Virginia Heffernan, You Have Misled Me.

There’s a current opinion piece in the New York Times by Ms. Heffernan, entitled “How to Sleep on a Plane.” And it’s a lie, of course, as such pieces invariably are. But some of us take them seriously. Some of us see that title, get a rush of hope, and think…


Wendy and the Lost Boys, Julie Salamon

I stayed up all night to finish this new (well, the first, really) biography of Wendy Wasserstein, and you should too. It’s fantastic.

It also made me furious at the basic unfairness of the universe, obviously, that someone should be so…


It Is Embarrassing That Science Needed to Tell Us This

You’ve all heard, by now, that bisexual men are real?

They’re real.

Me, I always assumed there were plenty of them, and that most of them just said “oh, you know, if society is going…


I’m Not Your Mommy

Three imagined scenes between January Jones and The Former Bobby Draper.


Wow, This Is Some Weird Journalism

The New York Times piece on the MLK Jr. Memorial? Two standouts:

1. The title: “A Dream Fulfilled, Martin Luther King Memorial Opens.” Famous dream metaphor: best when not applied to posthumous physical memorials.

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