These are fashion trends I do not understand. Allow my sartorial Andy Rooney a moment to vent.
Read MoreRead as a whole, the Twitter of writer and friend of the Internet generation Tao Lin is very much an extension of his longer published work. The guy himself is a literary meme, so it seems fitting to reproduce his most meme-able writings in kind.
Read MoreEveryone from Galileo to Jim Morrison to countless Scrabble wordsmiths have played around with letters to form their perfect anagrams. We take literary-minded words and anagram them to find ... well, that's up to you. A deeper meaning? A hidden truth? Or just a happy coincidence?
Read MoreThere 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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