You can conclude from the glossy surfaces of ‘The L Word’ that L stands for latte or Lexus and stop there. Or you can notice that in some of its less flashy moments, the show has staked a claim on Large – as in a larger, denser, more ambivalent imaginary world, populated by imperfect and riveting citizens of all sexual stripes. Stacey D'Erasmo Read Quote
As lightly toned by reality as the women on ‘Sex and the City,’ the bold, soigne characters on ‘The L Word’ suggest that L is also for limerence, that rapturous state of early love when the entire world is glowing and delectable. Stacey D'Erasmo Read Quote
What is the distance between here and there, between now and then, between right and wrong? In Greg Baxter’s pellucid first novel, ‘The Apartment,’ it may be simply the length of a day – but a day in which one travels surprisingly far, literally and figuratively. Stacey D'Erasmo Read Quote
I don’t know if my faith stems from what I’d call unconditional love, but the energy certainly feels boundless. Stacey D'Erasmo Read Quote
I’m embarrassed to reveal that I never went to CBGB’s in the ’80s. I was never cool enough to be a punk, and I wouldn’t have had the stamina, or the discipline, for straight-edge. Stacey D'Erasmo Read Quote
Music is quicksilver, gossamer; careers are measured in butterfly lifetimes. Stacey D'Erasmo Read Quote
In my darker moments, I feel like the Queen of England, bound and gagged by reverence. Tin-crowned and irrelevant. Stacey D'Erasmo Read Quote
Royalty mostly seem like members of some anachronistic faith, like the Amish, peculiar in gilded buggies. Stacey D'Erasmo Read Quote
All writers are magpies, right? We’re always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest. Stacey D'Erasmo Read Quote
