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Monday, July 9, 2007 12:00 AM

Katie Roiphe's morning after

With raves for her book dissecting modernist marriages and a hot new journalism job at NYU, has feminism's enfant terrible finally grown up?
By Rebecca Traister

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  • Monday, July 9, 2007 11:23 AM

    Ruff-ruff Roiphe?

    In an otherwise interesting and nicely-written article, I was struck by this odd phrasing:

    "snuffling so dilligently through the detritus"

    Did Traister purposely try to portray Roiphe as a hungry pug rummaging around the paper plates after a barbecue?

    —Asinistra Read Asinistra's other letters

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