Elizabeth Wurtzel: Dud or DUD?

LizzieWurtzel Elizabeth Wurtzel
Great people work in finance, HATE it--& could've retired long ago on Marks and Francs. The time is NOW: quit and protest! #OccupyWallStreet
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wow! just wow. kinda belongs on the quiddities thread, but man oh man...

http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/01/elizabeth-wurtzel-on-self-help.html

i'll be honest with you guys, i kinda like the way she writes. i like the breathless stream thing. i've written that way myself. i mean its effective. and compelling. the way she does it. WHAT she writes is another kettle of fish.

Meanwhile, most people who think they are practicing law are actually making binders, and my guess is that most people who think they are doing whatever important thing they are doing are making binders. The binders from law firms go to a locker in a warehouse in a parking lot in an office park off an exit of a turnpike off a highway off an interstate in New Jersey, never to be looked at again. No one ever read them in the first place. But some client was billed for the hourly work.

word tho

thought this piece was great

i loved the warehouse/parking lot/etc thing.

I have never liked E Wurzel much but I liked this piece.

There's some good stuff in there, but it's drowning in her privileged adolescence. At least Bukowski, another adolescent writer with strikingly shallow views on the human condition, wasn't writing about his Birkin bag and getting bailed out by David Boies.

yeah i mean the hell of a basement apartment in chelsea is why i thought of the quiddities thread...

also, it goes without saying, being a fucked up loser doesn't usually include a yale law degree when you are 40.

I am a free spirit. I do not know any other way to be. No one else seems to live as I do. In a world gone wrong, a pure heart is dangerous.

Lost sympathy for her at:

I would call 911, but the police are not equipped to manage crazy women and could not understand why someone who was neither a rejected lover nor a cast-out roommate was behaving this way. They always sent pairs of very fat female cops. As soon as I opened the door, I knew it was hopeless.

here is all the amazing stuff i have done. also, i cry a lot.

(i mean the whole thing is kinda bloggy but like i said there is style there writing-wise and stuff that is totally worth stealing. a little editing might have helped. do they still make editors?)

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http://www.tabletmag.com/author/ewurtzel

obliviousness being the hallmark of the quiddity thing. the cornerstone if you will.

also love the genius legal advice: you should move.

tbf if i lived in a basement apartment anywhere i too would be miserable

but c'mon the line where she says "i, too, am in storage" or whatever was a brilliant kicker

laverne & shirley were totally happy!

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A parlor floor is not a basement, btw, it's the nicest level of a brownstone and it's at least half a story above street level.

Oh nm just got to end of article. That was a lot of words for the number of ideas in them.

Has she been introduced to our friend Momus?

I made it maybe halfway through that NY Mag thing.

Possibly the two most infuriating things I've read by her:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/16/elizabeth-wurtzel-antisemitism-israel-gaza
http://www.harpersbazaar.com/beauty/health-wellness-articles/looking-better-at-45-than-25#slide-1

Actually, the latter is more surreal than anything.

I made it maybe halfway through that NY Mag thing.

Me too, then I skimmed to the bottom in the hope that there might be some kind of pay-off. Nope. What a self-regarding pile of self-regard. (Also thought the backhand at David Remnick was odd, but probably he's turned down a lot of pitches from her.)

I mean, who even writes like this?

I am a free spirit. I do not know any other way to be. No one else seems to live as I do. In a world gone wrong, a pure heart is dangerous.

in fairness, there's nothing wrong with the WAY that is written; it's the sentiment that is off-putting

I want everyone to try as hard as I do to please be gorgeous, because it's not that hard, girls. Looking great is a matter of feminism. No liberated woman would misrepresent the cause by appearing less than hale and happy.

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OTOH that first sentence Nicole just quoted is constructed terribly

I mean, who even writes like this?

I am a free spirit. I do not know any other way to be. No one else seems to live as I do. In a world gone wrong, a pure heart is dangerous.

teenage girls in the 70s is the correct answer

in fairness, there's nothing wrong with the WAY that is written; it's the sentiment that is off-putting

True. What I really mean is, who even thinks like this?

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I am a free spirit. I do not know any other way to be. No one else seems to live as I do. In a world gone wrong, a pure heart is dangerous.

--bob marley

In a world gone wrong ... a pure heart is dangerous!

This spring, Anna Paquin IS Elizabeth Wurtzel

in

FREE SPIRIT

In a world gone wrong ... a pure heart is dangerous!

This spring, Anna Paquin IS Elizabeth Wurtzel

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FREE SPIRIT I CRY A LOT

I should probably track down a copy of Prozac Nation just to satisfy my circa-2002 curiosity/Ricci-crush.

I mean, who even writes like this?

I am a free spirit. I do not know any other way to be. No one else seems to live as I do. In a world gone wrong, a pure heart is dangerous.

teenage girls in the 70s is the correct answer

haha the correct answer is that jean-jacques rousseau is a teenage girl in the 1770s

huh learn something every day. is j-j r responsible for this chesnut too

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^^on every late 1970s female college dorm room wall ever

I lost lots of helium balloons that way...

its funny how she gets all up on finance for ruining new york and then shes... a lawyer

i mean she did the thing every ambitious directionless person does and went to law school and somehow tries to paint it as an act of pure fuck up love, lady youre not lost youre doin the same shit as everyone else

lol i just read this

it was pretty good

had to just scan the last third, it kinda dragged

"If you need somebody, call my name
If you want someone, you can do the same
If you want to keep something precious
You got to lock it up and throw away the key
If you want to hold onto your possession
Don't even think about me
If you love somebody, set them free"

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

wurtzel's prutzels

i always think wurtzel is the author of the popular wurtzel-bat series.

" I like Mumford & Sons a lot, but I don’t own any complete albums. But maybe that just proves I am more of the times than I care to admit"

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/music/128313/in-bed-with-bob-dylan

http://theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/04/i-refuse-to-be-a-grown-up/274918/