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8  09 2004

Pinch me

I just got a chance to take a look at this month’s issue of our favorite magazine that arrived in the mail today. I did a victory dance around the room when I saw my name in the pages of The Atlantic Monthly. Twice!

Barbara Wallraff’s “Word Fugitives” column in The Atlantic, vol. 294 no. 3 (October 2004):</p> <p>“Do cultural anthropologists know about this? Do laundry-detergent marketing executives? Going through the dirty-clothes hamper to find something clean enough to wear is rampant in our land. At any rate, an astonishing number of people who responded to May’s request for a word to describe this activity admitted that they drew on personal experience.</p> <p>“ ‘Too often in the morning I find myself frantically pawing through the hamper, hoping that my mother-in-law won’t come knocking at the door and catch me,’ Nils Jonsson, of Sugar Land, Texas, told us. The term that Jonsson (among others) coined to describe what he does is skivvy-dipping.”

This is the closest to a classy byline as I get, best-selling biz lit notwithstanding. Now I can die happy. But not before I fill out a self-nomination form at pulitzer.org for the category of Magazine Contest Submissions. end of entry


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