Bitch is the New Black Archive

Dining with a Diva: “Bitch is the New Black” Official Launch Party

Posted on June 30, 2010 | 14 Comments
Helena and me at her launch party at Room & Board Unless you are new to The Dithering or you’ve been living under a rock for the past 6 months, you know that Helena Andrews’ first book, Bitch is the New Black: A Memoir, dropped...
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EXCLUSIVE Book Review: Helena Andrews’ “Bitch is the New Black”

Posted on May 17, 2010 | 21 Comments
Within the first three pages of Helena Andrews’ book Bitch is the New Black, you are greeted with the “S” word, vagina, and the “F” bomb–twice. Kinda vulgar. I was naively disappointed by that (“bitch” was in the title, after all). And I wanted to...
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Not Quite So Lonely: Helena Andrews Sets The Record Straight

Posted on December 29, 2009 | 3 Comments
As you know, I was outraged by the piece of tripe in the Washington Post a few weeks back: “Successful, Black and Lonely” and fittingly wrote a response: “Dear Ms. Andrews, Here’s Why You’re Lonely: The Myth of the Sad, Sad Black Woman.” I tweeted...
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Dear. Ms. Andrews, Here’s Why You’re Lonely: The Myth of The Sad Sad Black Woman UPDATED! ANDREWS RESPONDS

Posted on December 13, 2009 | 6 Comments
The only tidbits I know about the beautiful Helena Andrews I derived from a recent Washington Post exposé on the young, black, successful and self-described “lonely” author. Now, there were links in the article that I neglected to click on that I imagine would have...
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