Gazing, Navel
In “After” I wrote about the few words of wisdom I managed to offer to a friend consumed with that good ole guilt and shame over his pornographic obsessions: I told him that once I started talking about it in therapy, once “I stopped beating myself...Oh, Stephen
Last night I dreamt that Stephen Colbert was my friend. He had read something of mine and contacted me about it and we became pals, were going to work together on some project. It was all very exciting. Then suddenly we were in a building that was collapsing. I was...13 Ways of Looking Manfully at an Omelette in Denver
The scene was the Dozens diner, a block or two away from the Denver Art Museum. Jessica and I were having lunch with Brian Terwilliger, who is Jess’s oldest friend (they grew up on the same block in South Windsor, CT).Brian had ordered a Denver omelette, no...December Wrap-up
Hugo Schyzer calls himself a feminist. We called him a puritan, among other things:I ran a serialized follow up essay to “Peep Show,” the essay that brought Dan and me together, in six parts, called “After.” We wrote about the male gaze, not...E-Edition
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