The current most popular emailed story at NYTimes.com: "Backlash: Women Bullying Women at Work." A new survey has apparently revealed that "a good 40 percent of [workplace] bullies are women. And that unlike their male counterparts, they" -- the Times notes AnimalPlanetarily-- "prefer their own kind," targeting other...

My new comic novel, DEATH BY CHICK LIT, hotly anticipated by my parents, and cordially welcomed by Pandagon, is out today! It's my second mystery featuring writer/sleuth Lola Somerville who, in MISS MEDIA, pursued her hunch that women's media giant Ovum Inc. was controlled by forces...