January 5, 2005
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Today is the day to wait for my sign.
I am a very smart person. Prove it, you might say. All right, I’ll say. I’m going to reference a New York Times article, the second that I have this week. See? I read the New York Times and I have commentary on it.
Anyway, the above article is about how male authors, from Norman Mailer to Dave Eggers, often find themselves the focus of female adoration. Literary groupies. And it goes on to say that it’s hard for female authors to get male groupies, unless the “woman is very attractive or she writes a lot about sex. In the first category are, from the 70's, Jayne Anne Phillips; from the 80's, Susan Minot; from the 90's, Donna Tartt; and, most recently, Jhumpa Lahiri, Zadie Smith and Nell Freudenberger. The more sexed-up category includes writers from Erica Jong to Amy Sohn.” The piece goes on to question whether female authors can garner groupies based on literary merit alone, though, and not just looks, and gives a few tips on how to get more boys to fall in love with you as an author. As a much-beloved author, I can provide some additional pointers. * Set up a kissing booth at readings
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