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If your newly successful friend won’t stop name-dropping, is she the literary villain?

My Newly Successful Friend Won’t Stop Namedropping: Is She the Literary As***le? Well, hello there! Fancy meeting you here. Welcome back to the Internet’s favorite drunken advice column, Am I The Literary As***le? It’s the place where we ponder all of life’s hardest-hitting que…

Which literary character would be the worst person to follow on social media?

if your current life were a book genre, what genre would it be?

Basketball-curious after The Knicks Win—what should you read next?

What to read next if the Knicks win made you “basketball-curious.” Today in New York, you can’t get to lower Manhattan because the streets are clogged with Knicks fans. My town is still on fire from their historic championship win last weekend. People who co…

Is The Rumpus making a comeback?

The Rumpus is back! Last year, publishing power couple Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman acquired beloved online lit mag The Rumpus. Today, the new leaders celebrated the launch of their rebranded site with new essays, fi…

Which book would make a terrible movie but a great TV series?

What happens when a writer who swore off getting a dog finally gets a dog?

I Thought I Had Nothing to Write About. Then I Got a Dog. A contract accepted under duress is typically considered voidable. My wife Helen is a lawyer, so she would understand this better than anyone, and yet when she convinced me to say yes to a puppy af…

Can good writing be taught, or is it a natural gift?

What made an 18th-century naturalist who sailed with Captain Cook centuries ahead of his time?

Andrea Wulf Considers the Rare Humanity of an Eighteenth-Century Naturalist A gunshot pierced the calm. Then there was silence, followed by sounds of a commotion. A man came running towards them, but turned and hid in a bush as soon as he saw George Forster and his compani…

What is a word you learned recently that you can't stop using?