I have this huge stack of periodicals that I have been trying to make it through this weekend. These are issues of
Poets and Writers, Bomb, Bitch, and a few random current events monthlies that I didn't read as they came in last fall because of being insanely busy teaching new classes in new places. Not to mention
The Believer, which I haven't read for months, but that's a project in and of itself.
So far I have made it through the last couple of issues of
Bitch (which I still read despite the fact that last year they rejected a story idea of mine with a dismissive "read our magazine before you submit" and then I saw an eerily similar story in the next issue), which is fun because they do these really intense graduate-school-ish feminist analyses of pop culture on a theme. For example, the fall 2004 issue (theme:"Fake") was particularly entertaining because it contained a huge article about the portrayal of sexual assault on daytime soap operas AND an analysis of infertility in TV shows, most notably "Friends" and "Sex and the City." I start to feel a little dirty/guilty for reading this stuff -- kind of the same feeling I get when I accidentally watch a half hour of VH1 -- but then again, it's feminist, so it's cool, right? English majors have to have something to do after graduation. And the "
Jane Petty Criticism Corner" makes the whole subscription worthwhile.
-angie kritenbrink
posted by Angie Kritenbrink at 1/17/2005 11:47:00 PM 
