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Ease Your Post-Grad Jitters: 5 Authors Share What They Did After Graduation

By Michelle King

May 21, 2014

Don’t worry, they were just as scared as you are.

Breaking Down Breakdowns: Comedians in Crises

By Sarah Bennett

July 10, 2013

Memoirs by Sara Benincasa, Michael Ian Black and Darrell Hammond all go far beyond their bits and deep into their lives.

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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.