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Stop Watching TV & Read a Fucking Book: Lit Pairings for Your Favorite Shows

By Alex Trivilino

March 20, 2014

Television is atrophying your brain. Stop it with a good book or 10.

Clementine on Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple

By Kate Gavino

November 01, 2012

Welcome to Clementine’s Weekly Reading Series, where Clem the hedgehog talks about whatever she is currently reading. This week: Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple.

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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.