quote: "I can recall disapproving of the golden mean, always thinking there was more to be learned from the dark journey. The dark journey engaged me more." (Joan Didion, Paris Review Interview 1978)
links: (1) In the Fashion & Style Section: Drunkorexia: "Starving Themselves, Cocktail in Hand" (@NY Times), (2) The Decade's Most Misogynistic Movies (@RADAR Online), (3) Bookshelf Etiquette: Bookshelf and Self(@Chronicle of Higher Ed), (4) The Evolution of a Catchphrase (@NY Press), (5) American Teenagers are "Stunningly Ignorant" (@Slate)