rachelfershleiser:
“Nobody should write a memoir before they’re...
“Nobody should write a memoir before they’re fifty,” you announce to your friends over drinks. You are not fifty. “Everyone seems to think being 27 and unhappy in love is all you need to write a book about your life. You should have to get licensed before you can write one.” You are on your fourth glass of wine. It is Tuesday. “You should have to–be Gore Vidal, or a cultural attaché, or have invented genocide or something.” You spilled a little bit of your wine during that last remark, but it has landed on your napkin and you don’t think anyone noticed.
(via Ten Writers Whose Success You’ll Resent This Year)
Beautiful genius Mallory Ortberg and genius whom I’ve never met but is probably beautiful Nicole Cliffe have a new site! It is funny and feminist and bookish and amazing. Read it all. Follow it on social things. Comment up a storm. Share it with your friends. I am so not jealous, okay, except for a little bit.
