Angie Kritenbrink

Angie Kritenbrink was formerly an Assistant Editor at identitytheory.com.

panty raid

A few weeks ago, in my review of Matt Mason's new book, I was somewhat critical of some old poems he wrote about sex with a little too much self-awareness which perhaps did not benefit from his characteristic temperance. So then I was proven wrong when I went to his website and read "Ode to …

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book sale books

I went to a book sale several weeks ago which benefitted 826 Seattle, a literacy program that is an offshoot of the San Francisco that the McSweeney's people started. Among the books I picked up were Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson and The Last Life by Claire Messud. I read Guterson's Our Lady …

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the morning after

I recently read The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism by Katie Roiphe, the hot new book of about twelve years ago which I just got around to reading. Her general purpose is valuable; feminists, like any other -ists, have to be able to criticize themselves and question their ideologies to maintain relevance. Roiphe asks …

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swivel #2

How excited was I when I saw the new Swivel was on the shelves at newsstands in Seattle? Pretty excited. I reviewed the first issue for February's Book Rate, so I will just add that the second issue is as good, as smart, and as entertaining as the first. It's based here in Seattle, and …

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angie’s favorite first lines

Why does it have to be fiction? Poetry:Ginsburg's Howl"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed bymadness, starving hysterical naked," Whitman's Leaves of Grass"I celebrate myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." Sharon Olds's Satan Says(the whole first poem kicks ass) Memoir:Maya Angelou's I …

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