DoubleX Gabfest: The Bond Girl Edition
Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on women's figure skating, Michelle Obama's childhood-obesity campaign, and Judith Warner's book We've Got Issues.
Posted Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010, at 10:29 AM
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In this edition of the DoubleX Gabfest, founding editor Hanna Rosin, managing editor Jessica Grose, and The New Yorker's Margaret Talbot discuss South Korean figure skater Kim Yu-Na and her Bond girl routine, Michelle Obama's childhood-obesity campaign, and Judith Warner's new book on children and medication, We've Got Issues.
Click here to read Alison Gopnik's Slate review of the Judith Warner book.
The DoubleX Gabfest weekly "coffee talk" endorsements:
Hanna's pick: Judith Shulevitz's new book The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time.
Margaret's pick: The Confessions of Edward Day by Valerie Martin, about an actor in New York in the '70s.
Jessica's pick: The newly bleak Real Housewives of Orange County and the stealth feminism of housewife Vicki Gunvalson.
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Hanna Rosin is the author of The End of Men, a co-founder of Slate's DoubleX and a senior editor at the Atlantic. She can be reached at hanna.rosin@gmail.com. Follow her on Twitter or Facebook or visit her website.
Margaret Talbot is a staff writer for The New Yorker.
Jessica Grose is the author of the novel Sad Desk Salad, co-author of Love-Mom, and a regular Slate contributor.