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RIP Elizabeth Wurtzel

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Inky_Wretch, Jan 7, 2020.

  1. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

  2. OscarMadison

    OscarMadison Well-Known Member

    She was Lena Dunham with a better fashion sense. Did you see where her mother debunked her story about the identity of her father?

    I'm being harsh. It is sad that she died from a preventable disease and good for her that did what she could with the time she had left to convince people to get examined. My problem is with her literary legacy. She and Camille Paglia were held as late 20th C feminist iconoclasts in certain circles. The truth is they dragged down the discourse. Just not a fan.
     
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  3. britwrit

    britwrit Well-Known Member

    You are being harsh. They're arguably better writers but both Jay McInerney and Brett Easton Ellis are still alive.
     
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  4. OscarMadison

    OscarMadison Well-Known Member

    Neither of the writers you mentioned have boobs and a hairdo, so it's less critical (to me, at least) when they position themselves as the voices of their demographic.
     
  5. britwrit

    britwrit Well-Known Member

    Sorry. I forgot a :) in the original post.

    But while I wish death on nobody, of either gender, they are way more horrible people.
     
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  6. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    Bright Lights, Big City is a terrific book. Never read another that so successfully pulls off the second person narrator that he uses.
     
  7. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    I did not know that Wurtzel was fired from the Dallas Morning News, for plagiarism.
     
  8. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    Hopefully wasn't swiping hot takes from Bayless.
     
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  9. DanielSimpsonDay

    DanielSimpsonDay Well-Known Member

    google dot com

    "wurtzel" "aikman" "homosexual"

    Nope.
     
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