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One of my favorite authors, Zora Neale Hurston, is getting an awful lot of press lately, including this essay in The Washington Post‘s magazine last Sunday, April 18. Among other things, it talks about the novelist’s relationship to her hometown of Eatonville: “Many of Eatonville’s streets are named after citrus fruits, and one morning, N.Y. [...] Terry McMillan’s tweets have been getting her in trouble with some of her followers on Twitter. I was surprised to wake up last Friday to this lively conversation between McMillan (or @MsTerryMcMillan on Twitter) and @LoveMySkip, which picks up when McMillan describes her reaction to a Californian litterer: The two went in on each other a [...] I recently wrote a short list of my favorite African-American authors who grace Twitter for a really cool online zine, Clutch. Longtime readers recall that Uptown Literati used to do a weekly reading list for the site, which will resume next month! I focused on Black authors because they were so woefully ignored by mainstream lists, [...] It’s like a car accident: you don’t want to look, but you just have to. That is, Miley Cyrus’s new Wal-Mart collection. [via The Frisky] A good citizen calls the police to report a drunk driver. A better citizen calls and reports herself. [via Jezebel] Dakota Fanning was just crowned her high [...] We’ve all been there: a flight across the country, a million things we could be catching up on, and we’re reading SkyMall. But maybe there’s something to be said for those cheesy in-flight magazine. [via Jezebel] For those of us who are still smarting about missing Judy Blume at the National Book [...] Pastel prints? Fashion mags? Abbreviated words? If these things make you shudder, you may just be a “lipstick tomboy.” [via Clutch] Does objecting to sexism make you a “ranty-pant”? I don’t know, but we think we’ll start using that word. [via Jezebel] In a completely unscientific but nonetheless fascinating survey, the UK’s [...] Oprah is said to have the magic touch—but why should Precious need it? [via Jezebel] As far as transformations go, this one is a little beyond losing 20 pounds: little boy to little mermaid. [via Lemondrop] When the Harry Potter movies were in the works, I dreamt of playing Hermione. But to hear Emma Watson tell it, [...] The glory days of Chuck Bass and Serena van der Woodsen are over, says Nerve, making room for a new kind of a high school reality that we’ll all be singing our praises for. [via Nerve] A little adorable never hurt anyone: revel in this video of panda’s first trip to the doctor. Open wide and [...] For ladies seeking hair liberation, Honey brings you a few tips to ease the transition when you decide to get “chopped and screwed”: aka, shave it all off. [via Honey Mag] We live in a [...] As Funny People makes bank at the box office, read another take on Judd Apatow’s films: they’re chick flicks for guys. [via Double X] Could Chanel N.5 be Love Potion Number Nine? A writer takes pheromone-laced beauty products, that ever-growing cosmetic gimmick, for a test drive. [via The Frisky]
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