# prozac (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover prozac. Page: Feed: --- ## [Mary McCarthy’s “Birds of America”](https://thornfieldhall.blog/mary-mccarthys-birds-of-america/) _2026-08-21 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ “How can we not write satire? ” Juvenal asked in the second century CE. That’s why I appreciate Mary McCarthy. I recently reread her brilliant novel Birds of America (1971), set in the 1960s in Rocky Port, Massachusetts, Paris, and Rome. McCarthy aims her savage wit at American politics (the 1964 presidential election and the \[…\] ## [Was I Censored? Women & Sexuality](https://thornfieldhall.blog/was-i-censored-women-sexuality/) _2026-08-20 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ It started when I mentioned Cynthia Heimel’s humorous book, Sex Tips for Girls. She includes a six-page section on how to give a blow job. And then Ellen mentioned “fellatio” in a comment: the comment disappeared. I found it in the trash; I rescued it. It disappeared again; I rescued it again. And then the \[…\] ## [In Which We Go to a Club: Who Were Those Men with the Boat?](https://thornfieldhall.blog/in-which-we-go-to-a-club-who-were-those-men-with-the-boat/) _2026-08-18 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ It started at the grand opening of a club. I was given two tickets, and what else was I doing on a Friday night? I begged Captain Nemo to come with me, but the only club he liked was a dingy warehouse where we had once heard 10,000 Maniacs and Talk Talk for free. Anyway, \[…\] ## [Who’s on Prozac, Who’s Not?](https://thornfieldhall.blog/whos-on-prozac-whos-not/) _2026-08-16 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ I used to think I could walk down the street and identify people on Prozac (by which I mean antidepressants in general). It turned out I was wrong. The handsome, impeccably dressed middle-aged man who held the bus door open for us appeared on the street corner one morning wearing “beggar clothes” (tattered jeans, a \[…\] ## [Women and Sexuality in 20th-Century Literature: Cynthia Heimel, D. H. Lawrence, Mary McCarthy & Erica Jong](https://thornfieldhall.blog/women-and-sexuality-in-20th-century-literature-cynthia-heimel-d-h-lawrence-mary-mccarthy-erica-jong/) _2026-08-15 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ Why, one wonders, this sudden interest in sex? As a woman of a certain age, I already feel I could write an instruction manual. But as I laughed over Cynthia Heimel’s Sex Tips for Girls (1983), I was astonished by her detailed instructions on how to give a blow job. There’s no casual hopping into \[…\] ## [Cynthia Heimel’s Humor Columns & Essays](https://thornfieldhall.blog/cynthia-heimels-humor-columns-essays/) _2026-08-14 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ “The eighties weren’t our fault.” – Cynthia Heimel (1947-2018) Rearranging my bookcases is one of my favorite pastimes. I never know what I’ll find, and today I ferreted out a treasure trove of Cynthia Heimel’s humor books, Sex Tips for Girls; But Enough about You; If You Can’t Live without Me, Why Aren’t You Dead \[…\] ## [Pollution in the Midwest: Booth Tarkington’s “The Midlander”](https://thornfieldhall.blog/pollution-in-the-midwest-booth-tarkingtons-the-midlander/) _2026-08-13 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ We are experts on polluted cities. We learned from living in cities plagued by air and water pollution, the smoke from the factory stacks, the chemicals lobbed into the river, the destruction of inner-city neighborhoods, and flight to the suburbs and exurbs. Suburban life is complicated. There were no trains or buses from the far \[…\] ## [What Happened to the Clamshell iBook? The Age of the Cute Computer](https://thornfieldhall.blog/what-happened-to-the-clamshell-ibook-the-age-of-the-cute-computer/) _2026-08-11 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ Before everyone emailed and texted, before the invention of the talking refrigerator, most of us lived more or less off the grid, Our idea of high tech was the princess phone. But until I got a laptop computer, my life revolved around the typewriter. I happily typed papers, articles, essays, reviews, letters, and lists on \[…\] ## [Air or Water? Living in Polluted Cities](https://thornfieldhall.blog/air-or-water-living-in-polluted-cities/) _2026-08-10 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ When we moved into a 100-year-old bungalow in a lovely midwestern town, I was delighted.. The sun was brighter and the sky bluer than in the bustling post-industrial city where we used to live. That city was referred to as “the big dirty” by truckers. And the air was dirty, sometimes filthy, though the water, \[…\] ## [Welcome to Hairdo Hell: A Memoir](https://thornfieldhall.blog/welcome-to-hairdo-hell-a-memoir/) _2026-08-09 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ Several years ago, I won an award for an essay. It’s lovely to win an award, even if you just get a plaque or certificate, which you immediately lose, and which surfaces years later in a filing cabinet. Later, I won an award I’d never heard of. Of course it was an honor, as all \[…\] ## [Non-custodial Crypto Payments & Escrow (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/t8bk16U9Xr9h) _2026-08-09 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto with trustless escrow, instant confirmations, and no KYC ## [Date Night: The Wardrobe](https://thornfieldhall.blog/date-night-the-wardrobe/) _2026-08-09 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ Last night I went on a date. We went to a movie, or you could say two movies. At the first theater they wouldn’t let us in because we were 30 minutes late. At the second theater we were an hour late and still got tickets. “Now it’s date night,” I said to Captain Nemo.. \[…\]