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Plagiarized, From A Parrot
When people ask me how I got a novella published while in college, I usually shrug bashfully and change the subject. I never tell them the truth: I plagiarized the whole thing, ... ...read more
Study It Out! The Mormon Origins of the New Catchphrase
What “study it out” Really Means Last night’s vice presidential debate has already spawned a surfeit of memes—from images of Joe Biden’s inexplicable fistbump with K... ...read more
30 Books To Read For Banned Books Week
This week marks the 30th annual Banned Books Week. Celebrate your freedom to read what you want and combat censorship by reading banned or challenged books this week. If youR... ...read more
Behind the Inspiration
How some of your favorite fiction authors came to write their most notable books. If you’re passionate about reading, you’ve probably found that book that you clutch to your che... ...read more
Of Mice and Dead Men: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Uses Steinbeck’s Lennie Small to Measure Mental Retardation of Criminals
Texas continued its trend of executing mentally-challenged criminals yesterday, killing 54-year-old Marvin Wilson by lethal injection. Wilson, who was convicted of killing a pol... ...read more
Debut Australian Author M.L. Stedman Reads From The Light Between Oceans
A handful of eager readers gathered at the Barnes & Noble on 86 Street and Lexington Avenue last night to hear M.L. Stedman read from and discuss her debut novel The Light B... ...read more
How to Speak like a Painting
(Virtually monolingual, I’m about to discuss words as they work in English. My knowledge of languages that live off different fundaments entirely is sparse.) Like its talkati... ...read more
Beyond The Logical To The Absurd: An Interview With Bill Campbell, Author of ‘Koontown Killing Kaper’
Bill Campbell is the author of Sunshine Patriots, My Booty Novel, Pop Culture: Politics, Puns, and “Poohbutt” from a Liberal Stay-at-Home Dad and the recently publis... ...read more
Bill Clinton, Psychoanalyzed: John D. Gartner and the Triumph of Psychobiography
It should surprise no one that the best book ever written about Bill Clinton is by a psychologist. Now, granted, I haven’t read every single book on Clinton, but I’ve read more... ...read more
Word Play
Linguistic change, follies, and conundrums New words are forged every day. That thing that everybody’s been doing online – tweeting – has even made its way into Webster’s. With ... ...read moreFollow Us
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