Good Sense from Three Women

Thanks to Maureen Dowd for today's quotable quote:

If roughly one out of nine Americans is gay, why shouldn’t one out of nine Supreme Court justices be?

Rock 'n' roll, Maureen.  Thanks for having more guts than the White House's PR machine.

Onto more literary issues:  I love this post about writerly self-censorship by Tayari Jones so much, I'm going to link to it from my syllabus.  It's a classic:  sane, sound, humane.  If you're a writer, read it.  If you teach aspiring writers, send them there.

And in terms of dishing too-much-information in your memoir, I had to laugh out loud when I read this interview with Sarah Silverman about her new book The Bedwetter:

Q:  Your former boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel is barely mentioned.  Why did you refrain from spilling your secrets?

SS:  I guess mostly because I'm not a desperate douchey scumbag.

And on that note, gentle readers, I'm back to work.