The appeal of The Newsroom’s Jim Harper. As explained by Mindy Kaling.

From These Are My Favorite Kinds Of Guys, Part One (26 August 2011):

“Aaron Sorkin characters:

I love Aaron Sorkin characters because I, like the rest of the North American world, have a fondness for witty, East Coast-y, over-educated, well-dressed Jewish guys.

The typical Sorkin character is a bleeding heart liberal who is the tiniest bit sassy. They are also deeply moral.

The West Wing was entirely populated with these guys, and they frequently had to stand up for what was right.  You knew there was a stirring Sorkin speech and some good W. Snuffy Walden scoring on tap every episode.”

I’ll just leave this with you. [SPOILER ALERT: From Season 1, Episode 3]

Mindy Kaling’s book is available online

I don’t care if I’ve done two Mindy Kaling posts this week. I have made my peace with it and am comfortable in my Almost Famous-esque groupie shame, so everybody be cool.

The truth is, I would happily follow successful, funny writers around the country in a tour bus, were it a more practical stalking strategy.

Here is the link to her book.

Favourite quote so far: “Pancakes lead to lost weekends, like Trainspotting.”

Two ingenious @mindykaling features

Living Alone is Hard by Mindy Kaling, for Marie Claire

Listening In: Mindy Kaling by Phoebe Reilly for Spin

BTW: If you don’t know about her Twitterings, you are the only one. Get on that immediately.

The ever-lovely Mindy Kaling’s new book

It will be mine. Oh yes. It will be mine.