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Big-Boned (and Thick-Skinned)

Comment of the Week

by
Marc Tracy
October 28, 2011
(Ravi Joshi/Tablet Magazine')
(Ravi Joshi/Tablet Magazine')

Winner gets a free Nextbook Press book appropriate to his or her comment (if he or she emails me at [email protected] with his or her mailing address).

This week’s winner is “User,” who was provoked by Liel Leibovitz’s diatribe against Dirty Dancing (and his argument that it is an indelible emanation of the Reagan years) to suppose, “Liel is a troubled mind, and lost soul trapped in an overweight body that reflects his self-hatred. There is no air trafickers’ strike that can save this one.”

So, you’re a friend of Liel’s? (He’s a friend of yours; he nominated you this week.) Clearly you have an appreciation of the Jewish body, so you get Melvin Konner’s book of the same name.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.