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How Dirty Is That Auden Poem That Was Too Dirty for the Times Book Review?

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Courtesy of Scribner The highlight of this weekend’s New York Times Book Review is Dan Chiasson’s highly entertaining review of The Best American Erotic Poems, a new anthology of humpy verse edited by David Lehman. After calling John Updike’s “Fellatio” “perhaps the worst poem ever written on any subject,” Chiasson gleefully quotes the poem: “It is beautiful to think / that each of these clean secretaries / at night, to please her lover, takes / a fountain into her mouth. Read More...

Jojo Siwa Slams Dance Moms' Christi Lukasiak Over Comments

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Jojo Siwa is sticking up for a Dance Moms castmate.  Last week, Christi Lukasiak answered a question about whether she still talks to choreographer Gianna Martello, a coach on Dance Moms from 2011 to 2019. Best known as the mom of 19-year-old Chloe Lukasiak, Christi curtly responded, "No, Gianna's not nice." Jojo stepped up to the plate to defend Gianna. On TikTok this week, the Masked Singer star came out with guns blazing, calling Christi's statement the " Read More...