reading excerpts from Anne Rice novels somehow shameful, or to be ignored or covered up?

If some guy he appointed to something once co-owned a boxing club, would it be wrong to mention that because it's male-oriented?

I'm a little more interested in why Haines, with no relevant experience, got the job, but stuff that illustrates how well-rounded she might be is good stuff. And might give a hint as to why she got the job.

They skipped her experience:

Avril D. Haines is Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs at the White House. Prior to joining the White House Counsel’s office in 2010, she was Assistant Legal Adviser for Treaty Affairs at the Department of State. She previously worked in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the Department of State from 2003 to 2006, first in the Office of Treaty Affairs and then in the Office of Political Military Affairs. From 2007 to 2008, she worked on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations as Deputy Chief Counsel for the Majority. Ms. Haines clerked for Judge Danny Boggs on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 2002 to 2003. From 2001 to 2002, she was a Legal Officer at The Hague Conference on Private International Law. She received a B.S. in Physics from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

puff piece has to include the stock resume. If you're trying to humanize someone, which is not a bad thing, the resume might even get in the way.

Complainants may be missing the simple fact that this was a complimentary piece aimed at a specific market and stop moaning that it wasn't written exactly the way they would like to see it.

Even you said that she seemed to have no relevant experience. Perhaps you came to that conclusion because they omitted her relevant experience?

none of which had anything to do with her actual sex life.

What are you implying?

erotica comes in many flavors and those at her little bookstore seems to have appealed to educated women with refined literary tastes. Just one facet of her enlightened past.

That's what I got out of it-- but you seem to have gotten something else.

got the job as CIA Deputy Director?

I still don't see what you are referring to as "it" when you say "It might give a hint as to why she got the job."