John Waters’ new book, Role Models is a collection of intimate profiles of some of his favorite people. With Waters, you obviously expect the chosen role models to be colorful and he doesn’t disappoint. Among some of the characters are Tennessee Williams, the singer Johhny Mathis, a gay reality-porn auteur, a lesbian stripper called Lady [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Shirley Jackson
June 24, 2010 – 9:35 pm
I must have been nine the first time I read Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery.” I remember thinking deliciously that there was no happy ending, no remorse, and no moral to the story. Of course, that’s not exactly true but the chilling look that she gives to the human condition and in other stories, [...]
Sloane Crosley
June 14, 2010 – 6:44 am
Sloane Crosley is a super-hero of sorts; book publicist by day and best-selling author by night. For her day job, Sloane works at Vintage Books as the publicist for big dogs like Joan Didion, Toni Morrison, Jay McInerney, and Dave Eggers. In her free time, she wrote her own book I Was Told There’d Be [...]
