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8 Hours a Slave: Continuing to Write Despite Working in a Cubicle

By Genna Rivieccio

May 29, 2014

Five dead-end jobs into your 20s with nothing to show for it but a scant 401(k) and the will to keep the dream alive.

Six Out-Of-Office Replies For Your Mad Men Party Hangover

By Kate Gavino

April 04, 2013

When you're nursing a post Mad Men party hangover, you'll need the perfect out-of-office reply for all those pesky emails. Here are some of the best from the staff of Sterling-Cooper-Draper-Price (had email been invented in 1968).

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Eat Prey Drug: Summerland

Escaping a catastrophic blizzard to take peyote in the Arizona desert, Paul Kwiatkowski concludes his investigation into alternate perceptions of consciousness.

The Biggest Little-Known Influence on H. P. Lovecraft

M. R. James was an English author, scholar and inspiration to Lovecraft, though the world may have forgotten it.

The Sun Don't Shine on a Moonshine Still

Get a bleary-eyed view of moonshining from a modern day bootlegger.