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Washington Post
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
What two packs of weed gummies taught me about America
Jennifer Finney Boylan is president of PEN America. Her newest book is 'Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us.' I stepped into a Manhattan dispensary not long ago and left with a sense of uncertainty about the morality of pinball, going to the circus on Sundays, the rise and fall of transgender rights and the legality of dancing to the national anthem.
Washington Post
19-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
What ‘Scooby Doo' taught me about the riddle of identity
Jennifer Finney Boylan is president of PEN America. Her newest book is 'Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us.' Thanks in part to 'Wayne's World,' most everyone knows what a 'Scooby-Doo' ending is: One of the gang — usually Fred — says something like, 'Let's see who the monster really is!' and removes the villain's mask. As his true identity is revealed, the other members of the gang — Velma, or Daphne, or Shaggy — says something like, 'Why it's old man Withers, the guy who runs the haunted amusement park!'
Washington Post
05-02-2025
- General
- Washington Post
On cleavage: Mind the gap
Jennifer Finney Boylan is president of PEN America. This essay is adapted from her new book, 'Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us.' My wife, Deedie, woke me up one fall morning. In one hand she held a steaming cup of coffee. 'Good morning, Jenny Boylan,' she said. We'd been married for 36 years by then: 12 as husband and wife and 24 as wife and wife. We love each other more now than when we first started out. But our marriage is not without its complications. Post-transition, I found myself still fundamentally attracted to women — and to Deedie most of all. But the woman I loved did not identify as lesbian. More than once, I wondered how it was that she could possibly be satisfied with me. There were times when we just seemed to ache and ache.
