The Girl at the Baggage Claim

The premise was interesting, but I had to stop reading. The weight of the argument often rested on psychology studies: studies that are probably not replicable, and thus probably not true. Reading while basically tossing out all the evidence and then trying to figure out what might still be true was a slog.

[Edit: I almost forgot that Jen reveals that Annie Dillard didn't actually have a tom cat rub blood on her, as Tinker at Pilgrim Creek would suggest. That story was taken from someone else (!!)

“But she has also conceded that her tremendous opening line with its heraldic wildness—'I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the middle of the night and land on my chest'—was appropriated. Writes Saverin, When I asked about the tomcat in the first sentence, she told me she'd heard a similar story from ‘some poor graduate student' named Frank McCullough over lunch at the Hollins snack bar.”]