we miss thee, dear dorothy parker

I really enjoyed the name of this book-recommendation list on Amazon:

So you'd like to... Become the smartest, sexiest, most ideal woman among women: a guide by Alessandra Eakin, default expert through withering experience.

I own at least two of her recommended tomes.

In related news, Alex Kuczynski, about whom I have previously written in a post entitled "class(ism) and the New York Times (again)," has written a book entitled Beauty Junkies.

After (scroll down to post below) having to explain surrogate motherhood to my thirteen-year-old students, I was amused and amazed by Kuczynski's anecdote about having liposuction...

which her stepson's eight- or nine-year-old friend recognized immediately on a sunbathing Kuczynski. "Did you have fat cut off your butt?" he asked.

What kind of eight or nine year old even knows that that is an option? An eight or nine year old with a trust fund.