Check it out! Everything I Needed to Know About Being A Girl I Learned From Judy Blume (with an essay by moi!) was mentioned in a Diablo Cody article in Entertainment Weekly. Neato keeno!

Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere? Now 70 years old, the high priestess of girl-positive YA fiction is getting mad props from young fans and grown-up disciples alike. A book of essays titled Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned From Judy Blume was published last year. And on Sept. 19 in Los Angeles, ''Blumesday'' (a clever play on the Joycean ''Bloomsday'' tradition) was celebrated with a night of comedy tributes to Blume. Who knew that a benevolent, instructive mother of three could be this hip? Blume is a generational icon, and rightfully so.

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So here’s my question … why is this commercial okay with a hot guy and roly-poly dude? Can you imagine the backlash if it had been made with a hot sexy chick and an overweight girl?