Things to Read #31

Mirada July gets the Coveteur treatment. She owns my dream pair of Prada shoes.

“To say that I was not a friend of Alexander McQueen’s would be stating the truth. He certainly didn’t like me. It’s interesting that both writers have quoted his outburst about me, which, many years later, still amuses me. ” Colin McDowell casts a more balanced eye over the new Alexander McQueen biographies.

I really want to read Kim Gordon’s new memoir. I don’t like Sonic Youth (sacrilege!) but I do love her.

What Men’s Rights Activists are like in person.

Beware of writers, for they may write about you – or in the case of my mother and boyfriends both former and current; tough shit, because I’m going to mine your life for material anyway.

AMY POEHLER: I liked the costumes depending on how easily I could take a nap in them. I always pitched a character called Sleeping Bag Lady, who just wore a sleeping bag, but it never caught on. The women of Saturday Night Live.

What the term ‘It Girl’ really means.

A food writer goes to the home of ramen, while I drool all over my keyboard.