When I read the New York Review of Books years ago
a friend who worked there said the personal ads
were the most read part of the paper in spite of
Edward Said, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell
The ads were serious. Many talked about books
being read in the original languages (Proust, for
instance. Often mentioned.) I always read the personals
first. This morning someone sent me a serious Jewish
online periodical (Why Jews Support the Labor Movement)
and because I love personal ads, haven’t read them in years,
I read them first. While the references are different I still
loved them. No Proust or Lowell.
LOOKING FOR STEVEN SPIELBERG TO MY KATE CAPSHAW,
except if Kate Capshaw were 22, from SoCal, and was adopted
from China by her Jewish mother and secular father. I may be
Ch-ewish, but that isn’t stopping me from looking for a mensch.
And QUEER JEWISH FEMME STONER (26) seeks affectionate
anti-capitalist living near D.C. Me: consent educator. Ready to
show you with affirmations and memes. You: Down for communication.
GAY cis-man looking for someone to support me on my journey to
embracing my Jewish curls, buying me Kosher biscuits, and learning
Queer Torah together.