There are a few regular internet wormholes I can fall into for hours, and while some are more common, like searching for sloths on youtube.com or just "boots" on zappos.com (that's my usual cure for jetlag), I can also lose hours to reading anti-Scientology websites and books.
Read MoreWe consulted Great Expectations, Game of Thrones, and a lot of stuff in between to bring you this trove of literary invective for every occasion.
Read MoreHoroscopes
are meant to be prophetic, but why can’t they be poetic? Instead of
reading your stars this month, try reading some Allen Ginsberg with
these Poetic Horoscopes taken straight from his work.
The Lives in Translation interview series asks how translators and authors bridge the gaps between different languages and different lives. Our first interviewee is Charlotte Mandell, whose translations from French have brought miniature pastiches by Proust and a 517-page-long sentence by Mathias Énard into the English language.
Read MoreI will even watch Banshee. (I know, I know, you've never heard of Banshee.)
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